Alas! the deeper impression was made on himself.

For a moment he stared; the next he sprang to his feet with an oath plain and strong.
'Drat the man!' cried my lady in wrath.

He had come near to oversetting her plate.

'What flea has bitten you now ?' 'Do you know--who these people are ?' Mr.Thomasson stammered, trembling with rage; and, resting both hands on the back of his chair, he glared now at them and now at Lady Dunborough.

He could be truculent where he had nothing to fear; and he was truculent now.
'These people ?' my lady drawled in surprise; and she inspected them through her quizzing-glass as coolly as if they were specimens of a rare order submitted to her notice.