"Ay! and you dislike to be told that your show will presently appear ludicrous."
"Leave my house."
"Good G——! Ripple. I know I have been to blame; I know my story seems to you absurd; but, by Heaven! I swear those cursed lines were never writ by me, and since Vernon wrote them, why, z——ds, man! Can't you see his intention?"
"Leave my house."
"Very well, sir, your obedient servant."
With a very grand bow, Mr. Lovely took his leave of the Great little Man.
When he was gone, the Beau stooped to pick up the head of the diminutive Dresden shepherdess.
"Tut-tut, I doubt the join will be plainly visible," he murmured to himself.
Chapter the Twenty-seventh
TIME FOR REFLECTION
MR. LOVELY left the Great House enraged with the owner, with Society and, to say truth, with his own heroick self.