Don't
suppose I do.'
'I am quite certain you don't, sir,' replied Mrs Todgers. 'You have
too independent a spirit, I know, to yield to anybody. And quite right.
There is no reason why you should give way to any gentleman. Everybody
must be well aware of that.'
'I should think no more of admitting daylight into the fellow,' said the
youngest gentleman, in a desperate voice, 'than if he was a bulldog.'
Mrs Todgers did not stop to inquire whether, as a matter of principle,
there was any particular reason for admitting daylight even into a
bulldog, otherwise than by the natural channel of his eyes, but she
seemed to wring her hands, and she moaned.
'Let him be careful,' said the youngest gentleman. 'I give him warning.
No man shall step between me and the current of my vengeance. I know
a Cove--' he used that familiar epithet in his agitation but corrected
himself by adding, 'a gentleman of property, I mean--who practices with
a pair of pistols (fellows too) of his own. If I am driven to borrow
'em, and to send at friend to Jinkins, a tragedy will get into the
papers. That's all.
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