His proper appellation was Richard Guyes, but his friends never stood on ceremony with him.
The girl laughed again inconsequently.

She was spoken of by some as the spoilt beauty of the county.

"Oh, Piers is stuffed tight with gunpowder as everybody knows.

He explodes at a touch.

Get along, Barchard! What are you waiting for?
I told you to take the hounds home." Barchard looked at the Colonel.
"I suppose you'd better," the latter said.