"You had better ask him that, my lord."
"I have asked him, of course,—and of course he has no answer to make. No doubt you intended to enrage him when you wrote him that letter which he showed me."
"Certainly I did."
"I hardly see how good is to be done by angering an old man who stands high in the world's esteem."
"Had he not stood high, my lord, I should probably have passed him by."
"I can understand all that,—that one man should be a mark for another's scorn because he is a Marquis, and wealthy. But what I can't understand is, that such a one as you should think that good can come from it."
"Do you know what your father has said of me?"
"I've no doubt you both say very hard things of each other."
"I never said an evil thing of him behind his back that I have not said as strongly to his face," said Mr. Fenwick, with much of indignation in his tone.
"Do you really think that that mitigates the injury done to my father?" said Lord St. George.