He stamped, swore, raved, laughed, and almost went deranged.

The joke was soon spread through the room, and from Sir George to poor Lucy, now covered with blushes at her part in the transaction, all was laughter and astonishment.
"Who is he?
That is the question," said Sir George, who, with all the ridicule of the affair hanging over him, felt no common relief at the discovery of the imposition.
"A friend of O'Malley's," said Power, delighted, in his defeat, to involve another with himself.
"Indeed!" said the general, regarding me with a look of a very mingled cast.
"Quite true, sir," said I, replying to the accusation that his manner implied; "but equally so, that I neither knew of his plot nor recognized him when here." "I am perfectly sure of it, my boy," said the general; "and, after all, it was an excellent joke,--carried a little too far, it's true; eh, Lucy ?" But Lucy either heard not, or affected not to hear; and after some little further assurance that he felt not the least annoyed, the general turned to converse with some other friends; while I, burning with indignation against Webber, took a cold farewell of Miss Dashwood, and retired..