"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.

"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.
