He is an orphan, and George's ward."
"What is he like?" asked Angela, ingenuously.
"Really I don't know; rather tall, I think--a gentlemanly fellow. It
really is a relief to speak to a gentleman again. There has been a
nice disturbance at Isleworth," and then he told his daughter the
history of the great dog fight.
"I should think Mr. Heigham was perfectly in the right, and I should
like to see his dog," was her comment on the occurrence.
As Arthur dressed himself for dinner that evening he came to the
conclusion that he disliked his host more than any man he ever saw,
and, to say the truth, he descended into the dining-room with
considerable misgivings. Just as he entered, the opposite door opened,
and Sir John Bellamy was announced. On seeing him, George emerged from
the sulky silence into which he was plunged, and advanced to meet him.
"Hullo, Bellamy! I must congratulate you upon your accession to rank."
"Thank you, Caresfoot, thank you," replied Mr. Bellamy, who, with the
exception that he had grown a size larger, and boasted a bald patch on
the top of his head that gave him something of a appearance of a jolly
little monk, looked very much the same as when we last saw him as a
newly married man.
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