Dick listened with amazement and then admiration. He had never heard its
like, nor did he feel any offense. The daughter, too, stood by, pursing
her prim lips, and evidently approving. Colonel Winchester was
motionless like a statue, while the infuriated man shook his fist at him
and launched imprecations. But his face had turned white and Dick saw
that he was fiercely angry.
When the old man ceased at last from exhaustion Colonel Winchester said
quietly:
"If you had spoken to me in the proper manner we might have gone away and
found quarters elsewhere. But we intend to stay here and we will repay
your abuse with good manners."
Dick saw the daughter flush, but the old man said:
"Then it will be the first time that good manners were ever brought from
the country north of the Mason and Dixon line."
Colonel Winchester flushed in his turn, but made no direct reply.
"If you will assign us rooms, Miss Woodville," he said, "we will go
to them, otherwise we'll find them for ourselves, which may be less
convenient for you. I repeat that we desire to give you as little
trouble as possible.
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