"Don't blush, Mr. Grimaldi, pray don't blush; there is not the least occasion for blushing," said Sir James Scarlett.
"I don't blush, sir," rejoined the witness.
"I assure you, you need not blush so."
"I beg your pardon, sir, I really am not blushing," repeated the witness, who beginning to grow angry, repeated it with so red a face, that the spectators tittered aloud.
"I assure you, Mr. Grimaldi," said Sir James Scarlett, smiling, "that you are blushing violently."
"I beg your pardon, sir," replied Grimaldi, "but you are really quite mistaken. The flush which you observe on my face is a Scarlet one, I admit; but I assure you that it is nothing more than a reflection from your own."
The people in the court shouted with laughter, and Sir James Scarlett joining in their mirth, proceeded without further remark with the business of the case.