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And, when another old
friend was in the neighbourhood, close by, one of the oldest friends I
have in the world, wasn't I to go and see her? God bless my soul! What
business is it of yours? I never heard such impudence in my life!' Let
the charitable reader suppose that Colonel Osborne did not know that he
was lying--that he really thought, when he spoke, that he had gone down
to Lessboro' to see the remarkable piece of antiquity.
'Good morning,' said Hugh Stanbury, turning on his heels and walking
away. Colonel Osborne shook himself, inflated his cheeks, and blew
forth the breath out of his mouth, put his thumbs up to the armholes of
his waistcoat, and walked about the platform as though he thought it to
be incumbent on him to show that he was somebody, somebody that ought
not to be insulted, somebody, perhaps, whom a very pretty woman might
prefer to her own husband, in spite of a small difference in age. He
was angry, but not quite so much angry as proud. And he was safe, too.
He thought that he was safe.


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