Good day, sir; I hope you'll have a pleasant journey. Much obliged
to you for your patronage, sir;" and Runciman, still smiling
unpleasantly, touched his hat as the Senator got into the omnibus.
The Senator was not very happy as to the Goarly business. He had
paid some money and had half promised more, and had found out that
he was in a boat with thoroughly disreputable persons. As he had
said to the landlord, a man may have the right on his side in an
action at law though he be a knave or a rascal; and if a lord be
unjust to a poor man, the poor man should have justice done him,
even though he be not quite a pattern poor man. But now he was led
to believe by what the landlord had said to him that he was being
kept in the dark, and that there were facts generally known that he
did not know. He had learned something of English manners and
English institutions by his interference, but there might be a
question whether he was not paying too dearly for his whistle. And
there was growing upon him a feeling that before he had done he
would have to blush for his colleagues.
As the omnibus went away Dr. Nupper joined Mr. Runciman under the
archway. "I'm blessed if I can understand that man," said Runciman.
"What is it he's after?"
"Notoriety," said the doctor, with the air of a man who has
completely solved a difficult question.
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