Give each a cut, and send it about its business!' The man wheeled his horse before the words were well uttered, and crying obsequiously 'that it was done,' flung his reins to one of the other riders and disappeared in the shed, as if the order given him were the most commonplace one in the world.
The party in the other room, however, by whom all could be heard, were not slow to take the alarm.

They broke into a shout of remonstrance, and one of their number, leaping from the window, asked with a very fierce air what the devil we meant.

The others thrust out their faces, swollen and flushed with the wine they had drunk, and with many oaths backed up his question.

Not feeling myself called upon to interfere, I prepared to see something diverting.
My companion, whose coolness surprised me, had all the air of being as little concerned as myself.

He even persisted for a time in ignoring the angry lawyer, and, turning a deaf ear to all the threats and abuse with which the others assailed him, continued to look calmly at the prospect.
Seeing this, and that nothing could move him, the man who had jumped through the window, and who seemed the most enterprising of the party, left us at last and ran towards the stalls.