"How dared you," he said in a low, hard voice, "how dared you let me
find you in such a place?"
"I was with gentlemen playing a quiet game. You had no right to disturb
me."
"You were playing with thieves and blackguards. There was not a
gentleman in the room--no, not one."
"John, take care what you say."
"A man is no better than the company he keeps. Go with rascals and you
will be counted one of them. Yes, and so you ought to be. I am ashamed
of you!"
"I did not ask you to come into my company. I did not want you. It was
most interfering of you. Yes, John, I call it impudently interfering. I
gave way to you this time to prevent a police scene, but I will never do
it again! Never!"
"You will never go into such a den of iniquity again. Never! Mind that!
The dead and the living both will block your way. We Hattons have been
honest men in all our generations. Sons of the soil, taking our living
from the land on which we lived in some way or other--never before from
dirty cards in dirty hands and shuffled about in roguery, treachery, and
robbery.
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