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KenilworthCHAPTER XXVIII.notice, and attempted to pass him in his way downstairs, withoutany symptom of recognition. But Lambourne, who,What, man, ne’er lack a draught, when the full can amidst the profusion of that day’s hospitality, had not failedStands at thine elbow, and craves emptying!— to take a deep though not an overpowering cup of sack, wasNay, fear not me, for I have no delightnot in the humour of humbling himself before any man’sTo watch men’s vices, since I have myselflooks. He stopped Tressilian upon the staircase without theOf virtue nought to boast of—I’m a striker, least bashfulness or embarrassment, and addressed him as ifWould have the world strike with me, pell-mell, all. he had been on kind and intimate terms:—”What, no grudgebetween us, I hope, upon old scores, Master Tressilian?—nay,Pandemonium. I am one who remembers former kindness rather than latterfeud. I’ll convince you that I meant honestly and kindly, ay,TRESSILIAN, in strange agitation of mind, had hardly stepped and comfortably by you.”down the first two or three steps of the winding staircase, “I desire none of your intimacy,” said Tressilian—”keep companywith your mates.”when, greatly to his surprise and displeasure, he met MichaelLambourne, wearing an impudent familiarity of visage, for “Now, see how hasty he is!” said Lambourne; “and howwhich Tressilian felt much disposed to throw him down-stairs; these gentles, that are made questionless out of the porcelainuntil he remembered the prejudice which Amy, the only objectof his solicitude, was likely to receive from his engaging You would take Master Tressilian now for the most maid-clay of the earth, look down upon poor Michael Lambourne!in any act of violence at that time and in that place. like, modest, simpering squire of dames that ever made loveHe therefore contented himself with looking sternly upon when candles were long i’ the stuff—snuff; call you it? Why,Lambourne, as upon one whom he deemed unworthy of you would play the saint on us, Master Tressilian, and forget324