"I have heard,--and be d----d to him," said Burgo. Then there was suddenly a silence in the room, and everyone seemed to attend assiduously to his breakfast. It was very terrible, this clear expression of a guilty meaning with reference to the wife of another man! Burgo regarded neither his plate nor his cup, but thrusting his hands into his breeches pockets, sat back in his chair with the blackness as of a thunder cloud upon his brow.
[Illustration: "I have heard," said Burgo.]
"Burgo, you had better eat your breakfast," said Sir Cosmo.
"I don't want any breakfast." He took, however, a bit of toast, and crumbling it up in his hand as he put a morsel into his mouth, went away to the sideboard and filled for himself a glass of cherry brandy.
"If you don't eat any breakfast the less of that you take the better," said Sir Cosmo.
"I'm all right now," said he, and coming back to the table, went through some form of making a meal with a roll and a cup of tea.

"I have heard, and be d--d to him," said Burgo. There was suddenly silence in the room, and everyone attended assiduously to breakfast. Burgo sat back with his hands thrust into his breeches pockets, and the blackness of a thunder cloud upon his brow.
"Burgo, you had better eat your breakfast," said Sir Cosmo.
"I don't want any breakfast." He took, however, a morsel of toast, and went to the sideboard and filled himself a glass of cherry brandy.
"If you don't eat any breakfast the less of that you take the better," said Sir Cosmo.
"I'm all right now," said he, and coming back to the table, went through some form of making a meal with a roll and a cup of tea.
