"Well, yes; I'll go on Friday, but not after that."
"You'll stop and see me turned off, old fellow?"
"What's the use? You'll get your wife, and that's enough for you. The truth is, that since that girl came down from London with her d----d airs;"--the girl from London with the airs was poor Alice,--"the place is quite changed. I'm blessed if the whole thing isn't as dark as ditch-water. I'm a plain man, I am; and I do hate your swells." Against this view of the case Captain Bellfield argued stoutly; but Cheesacre had been offended, and throughout the next day he was cross and touchy. He wouldn't play billiards, and on one occasion hinted that he hoped he should get that money soon.

"Well, yes; I'll go on Friday, but not after that."
"You'll stop and see me married, old fellow?"
"What's the use? You'll get your wife, and that's enough for you. The truth is, that since that girl came down from London with her d---d airs;" - he meant poor Alice - "the place is quite changed. I do hate your swells." Captain Bellfield argued with him; but Cheesacre was cross and touchy.
