The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

MR. TODD your sentiments. I have heard very ill things said of him, I can tell you. mrs. ossory. Who is he? Does any one know? A man of family, I hope. How dreadful for poor Henry if he had been run over by a plebeian ! ossory. Well, we hardly know—I wonder if his credit is good. [Mis voice sinks to a whisper as the awful suspicion that he may be financially unsound strikes him.] carr [sharply, as if pained]. Oh, oh! Don’t suggest such a thing without the very best reason. It would be too terrible! [This time EUPHEMIA laughs. ossory. My dear boy, I deliberately say it. I have the very best of reasons for supposing him to be very deeply dipped. Very deeply dipped. carr. [Hides his head in his hands and groans, pretending to be overwhelmed by the tragedy. Looks up.| Well, 1 was told the other day that he held a lot of land in London, and has more tenants than the Duke of Westminster! ossory. Well, we'll hope it is true. But in these days one never knows. And he leaves a very unpleasant impression wherever he goes. If I were not an Englishman I should say that the feeling I had for him was not very far removed from actual fear! CARR. Well said, sir. Hearts of oak in the City, eh? [ossory glares at him suspiciously, Eurnemia both enjoys the joke and is angry that her father is the butt of tt. EUPHEMIA. Well, I’m not afraid of him—I think I rather like him. I’m sure he’s a good man, when one knows him. IV P 217