His florid face became quickly florider, and he cried, "You impudent young dog!" "Do not speak to me until you've been introduced.

You're always forcing your acquaintance upon someone, Roland Macassar," said Tinker.
It was again the wounding truth; and Courtnay sprang up and dashed for him.

Tinker bolted round a group of shrubs, Courtnay after him.
Finding him unpleasantly quick on his feet Tinker bolted into the shrubs.

Courtnay plunged after him right into a well-grown specimen of the flowering cactus.

It brought him up short.