How do you like that state of things?
Eh ?" The man was taken aback.

"Sir Charles will stand by me," he said, after a pause, with assumed confidence, but with an anxious glance at the baronet.
"If he does, after witnessing the return you have made me for standing by you, he is a greater fool than I take him to be." "Gently, gently," said the clergyman.

"There is much excuse to be made for the poor fellow." "As gently as you please with any man that is a free man at heart," said Trefusis; "but slaves must be driven, and this fellow is a slave to the marrow." "Still, we must be patient.

He does not know--" "He knows a great deal better than you do," said Lady Brandon, interrupting.

"And the more shame for you, because you ought to know best.