"HE won't be troubling me this morning," Jos thought, "with his dandified airs and his impudence."
"Put the Captain's hat into the ante-room," he said to Isidor, the servant.
"Perhaps he won't want it again," replied the lackey, looking knowingly at his master. He hated George too, whose insolence towards him was quite of the English sort.
"And ask if Madame is coming to breakfast," Mr. Sedley said with great majesty, ashamed to enter with a servant upon the subject of his dislike for George. The truth is, he had abused his brother to the valet a score of times before.
Alas! Madame could not come to breakfast, and cut the tartines that Mr. Jos liked. Madame was a great deal too ill, and had been in a frightful state ever since her husband's departure, so her bonne said. Jos showed his sympathy by pouring her out a large cup of tea It was his way of exhibiting kindness: and he improved on this; he not only sent her breakfast, but he bethought him what delicacies she would most like for dinner.

"He won't be troubling me this morning," he thought, "with his dandified airs and his impudence."
"Put the Captain's hat away," he said to Isidor, the servant.
"Perhaps he won't want it again," replied Isidor. He too hated George, who had treated him with insolence.
"Ask if Madame is coming to breakfast," Mr. Sedley said.
Alas! Madame could not come to breakfast. She was too ill, and in a frightful state, so her maid said. Jos showed his sympathy by pouring Amelia a large cup of tea, and sending her breakfast in.
