[20] See [Note III].
"What are you laughing at?" said Mr. Skinner, with an awful display of judicial gravity.
"At them!" responded Mr. Kenihazy, still chuckling. "They wanted to do us, and we've done them. Done them brown, eh? We are in!"
"Bravo! we are in!" cried the justice. "The world is to the wise!"
"And to the cunning!" said Kenihazy, tossing off his glass.
"Ay—but—yes, we are in! Look to yourselves, you rascals! You wanted to have another judge, eh? Very well; oh, very well: we'll see who has the best of it."
"And who was it they wanted to put in my place?" shouted his friend, in a generous burst of indignation; "was it not Vincenz Görögy? a mere boy, who has just left the university?" This was the more criminal in Mr. Kenihazy's eyes, as he had never been at any university.
"As for that fellow, Tengelyi, let him take care!" snarled Mr. Skinner. "I've long had a mind——"
"Capital thing, isn't it, that he isn't a nobleman now? He's now easier come-at-able."
"So he is," murmured the justice; "but they've sent us to get his papers for him."