Staying away won't bring poor Frank Moody back to life." "But there's a decency in these matters, is there not, Mr.
Fitzgibbon ?" said Lady Laura.
"I thought they had thrown all that kind of thing overboard long ago," said Miss Fitzgibbon.

"It would be better that they should have no veil, than squabble about the thickness of it." Then dinner was announced.

The Earl walked off with Miss Fitzgibbon, Barrington Erle took Mrs.Bonteen, and Mr.Fitzgibbon took Lady Laura.
"I'll bet four pounds to two it's over nineteen," said Mr.Bonteen, as he passed through the drawing-room door.

The remark seemed to have been addressed to Mr.Kennedy, and Phineas therefore made no reply.
"I daresay it will," said Kennedy, "but I never bet." "But you vote--sometimes, I hope," said Bonteen.
"Sometimes," said Mr.Kennedy.
"I think he is the most odious man that ever I set my eyes on," said Phineas to himself as he followed Mr.Kennedy into the dining-room.
He had observed that Mr.Kennedy had been standing very near to Lady Laura in the drawing-room, and that Lady Laura had said a few words to him.

He was more determined than ever that he would hate Mr.
Kennedy, and would probably have been moody and unhappy throughout the whole dinner had not Lady Laura called him to a chair at her left hand.