So he kept away from the Hotel de Cheval Blanc till his new suit should be ready.

It was not because of his dress, however, that he steadily refused Harry's invitation to the picnic.
"No, I will not go," he said, with blunt decision, after listening to Harry's pleading.

"It is Lieutenant De Lacy's picnic, and I will have nothing to do with him, and indeed he will not be wanting me!" "Oh, he's forgotten all about that little affair," cried Harry.
"Has he?
Indeed then if he is a man he has not!" "I guess he hasn't remembered much of anything for the last week," said Harry, with a slight laugh.
"Why not ?" "Oh, pshaw, he's been on a big tear.

He only sobered up yesterday." "Huh!" grunted Ranald, contemptuously.

He had little respect for a man who did not know when he had had enough.