1 'Not a bit of it,' replied Mr. Giles.
2 'You're a lie, Brittles,' said Mr. Giles.
3 'You are afraid, Brittles,' said Mr. Giles.
4 'You're a falsehood, Mr. Giles,' said Brittles.
5 'Ladies present, Mr. Giles,' murmured the tinker.
6 'I heerd it now, quite apparent,' resumed Mr. Giles.
7 'A kind of a busting noise,' replied Mr. Giles, looking round him.
8 'Speak for yourself, sir,' said Mr. Giles, who was the palest of the party.
9 It was, when you heerd it, sir,' rejoined Mr. Giles; 'but, at this time, it had a busting sound.
10 But it's wonderful,' said Mr. Giles, when he had explained, 'what a man will do, when his blood is up.
11 Certainly,' replied the shorter man; 'and whatever Mr. Giles says, it isn't our place to contradict him.
12 Brittles is right,' said Mr. Giles, nodding his head, approvingly; 'from a woman, nothing else was to be expected.
13 It happened that about this time, Mr. Giles, Brittles, and the tinker, were recruiting themselves, after the fatigues and terrors of the night, with tea and sundries, in the kitchen.
14 'I am agreeable to anything which is agreeable to Mr. Giles,' said a shorter man; who was by no means of a slim figure, and who was very pale in the face, and very polite: as frightened men frequently are.
15 Now, these four retorts arose from Mr. Giles's taunt; and Mr. Giles's taunt had arisen from his indignation at having the responsibility of going home again, imposed upon himself under cover of a compliment.
16 Mr. Giles acted in the double capacity of butler and steward to the old lady of the mansion; Brittles was a lad of all-work: who, having entered her service a mere child, was treated as a promising young boy still, though he was something past thirty.
17 Not that it was Mr. Giles's habit to admit to too great familiarity the humbler servants: towards whom it was rather his wont to deport himself with a lofty affability, which, while it gratified, could not fail to remind them of his superior position in society.
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