Fortunately the lawyer evaded it with nimbleness; and having escaped to a safe distance hastened to cry, "No malice! I bear you no malice, sir!" with so little breath and so much good-nature that Sir George recovered his balance.

"Confound you, man!" he continued.

"Why am I not to speak?
I came here to tell this good woman that if she has a care for this girl the sooner she takes her from where she is the better! And you cannot let me put a word in." "You came for that, sir ?" "For what else, fool ?" "I was wrong," said the attorney humbly.

"I did not understand.

Allow me to say, sir, that I am entirely of your opinion.