To a much longer speech than this had Horatio Markham given his attention, when he and the reverend divine were interrupted by the return of Mr. Martindale in a downright passion. The cause of that passion we shall narrate in the following chapter.
CHAPTER III.
“There was a time,—
And pity ’tis so good a time had wings
To fly away,—when reverence was paid
To a grey head; ’twas held a sacrilege
Not expiable, to deny respect
To one, sir, of your years and gravity.”