You remember, yourself, sir, the sneers and oglings, the starings and simperings in the park that day when you made your first attempt to champion my cause, inducing the Lady Mary Deller to come and speak to me." "Nay, nay--think of these things no more.

Gnats will sting; 'tis in their nature.

I admit 'tis very vexing at the time; but it soon wears off if the flesh they have stung be healthy.

So think no more on't." "But you do not know what follows.

Her ladyship insisted that I should drive with her a week after your hurt, when the doctor first proclaimed you out of danger, and while the town was still all agog with the affair.