He and I have not been on good terms of late.' 'Oh, my dear boy! Surely, surely you are not so unforgiving as to carry your little differences to such a length as--' 'Little differences, indeed!' I muttered.
'Well, but only remember the occasion.

Think how--' 'Well, well, don't bother me now--I'll see about it,' I replied.
And my seeing about it was to send Fergus next morning, with my mother's compliments, to make the requisite inquiries; for, of course, my going was out of the question--or sending a message either.

He brought back intelligence that the young squire was laid up with the complicated evils of a broken head and certain contusions (occasioned by a fall--of which he did not trouble himself to relate the particulars--and the subsequent misconduct of his horse), and a severe cold, the consequence of lying on the wet ground in the rain; but there were no broken bones, and no immediate prospects of dissolution.
It was evident, then, that for Mrs.Graham's sake it was not his intention to criminate me..