Now it disgusted him.

'Faugh, man!' he said, rising.

'Have done! You sicken me.

Go and bore Lord Almeric--if he has not gone to Paris to save his ridiculous skin!' But Mr.Thomasson, who had borne abuse of himself with Christian meekness, could not hear that unmoved.

'My dear Sir George, my dear friend,' he urged very seriously, and with a shocked face, 'you should not say things like that of his lordship.