"Good morning, gentlemen! You have come to draw my covers?
Then let me suggest your beginning with the plantation yonder to the right, where I can promise you good sport." It was unneighbourly; an action remembered against Sir Felix to the close of his life, as it deserved to be.

He himself admitted later that he had given way to momentary choler, and made what amends he could by largess to the victims and their families.

But it was long before he recovered his place in our esteem.

Indeed, he never wholly recovered it: since of many dire consequences there was one, unforeseen at the time, which proved to be irreparable.

Over the immediate consequences let me drop the curtain.