if you wish to consult me on that second difficulty which has mixed itself up with our little embarrassments, and which has so altered you for the worse, that I hardly know you again. Speak, my friend—and pardon me if I shock your fiery national tastes by mixing myself a second glass of sugar-and-water.”
“It’s very well to say speak,” replied Sir Percival, in a far more quiet and more polite tone than he had yet adopted,
if you wish to consult me on that second difficulty which has mixed itself up with our little embarrassments, and which has so altered you for the worse, that I hardly know you again. Speak, my friend—and pardon me if I shock your fiery national tastes by mixing myself a second glass of sugar-and-water.”
“It’s very well to say speak,” replied Sir Percival, in a far more quiet and more polite tone than he had yet adopted,
