I told you that plainly enough at Southampton.' 'I don't see why I should be hurried away and hidden,' said Lord Maulevrier.

'I must face my accusers, sooner or later.' 'Of course.

The day of reckoning must come.

But in the meantime have you no delicacy?
Do you want to be pointed at everywhere ?' 'All I know is that I am very ill,' answered her husband, 'and that this wretched journey has made me twenty years older.' 'We shall be safe at home before noon to-morrow, and you can have Horton to set you right again.

You know you always believed in his skill.' 'Horton is a clever fellow enough, as country doctors go; but at Hastings I could have had the best physicians in London to see me,' grumbled his lordship.
The rustic maid-servant came in to lay the table, assisted by her ladyship's footman, who looked a good deal too tall for the room.
'I shan't dine,' said the Earl.