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You have made such a claim, and in a most offensive manner." "Do you understand the meaning of the language you are using, sir? You are calling me a liar." "You put it very tersely, Mr. Hodden. Thank you. Now, if you venture to address me again during this voyage, I shall be obliged if you keep a civil tongue in your head." "Good heavens! You talk of civility?" cried the astonished man, aghast.
In fact, the conduct of those two young people at this time was utterly inexplicable. "Why did you pretend to Hodden that you had never heard of him, and make him state that he was a writer of books?" Buel had said. "I did it for his own good. Do you want me to minister to his insufferable vanity? Hasn't he egotism enough already?
Hodden?" asked the girl. "That is a hard question to answer. I think, however, that one of the most deplorable features of American life is the unbridled license of the Press. The reporters make existence a burden; they print the most unjustifiable things in their so-called interviews, and a man has no redress. There is no escaping them.
"You won't get him," was the reply, "and I am instructed to inform you that the next German bullet that falls on Dutch ground will be considered a hostile act against a neutral nation. It will mean war!" "I don't care what it means," shouted the German, now thoroughly aroused. "Perhaps not," said Captain Hodden, "but your superiors may. I would advise you to order your men to fall back."
And here he was challenging me, who stood before him in a prentice's hodden grey! "Sir," I said, "I could wish you a better quarrel, but not more courtesy. Many a gentleman seeing me such as I am, would bid me send, ere he crossed swords with me, to my own country for my bor-brief, which I came away in too great haste to carry with me.
The broad Lowland bonnet did not cover a shrewder head than old David Riddell's; nor did the hodden grey coat, throughout wide Scotland, wrap a warmer or more honest heart. His honesty was manifest to all the warmth of his feelings was latent, and required to be struck by strong emotion, ere it was developed externally.
Jeffreys stared when his guide came again into the sunny parlour prepared for his walk to Newnham. The rough farmer in hodden gray had disappeared, and in his place stood a stalwart and handsome young gentleman in green slashed doublet and hosen of soft cream cloth.
"All of them, I think; all of them, at one time or another. The publishing business has its drawbacks like every other trade," replied Brant, jauntily. "Have you met Hodden?" "Several times. Conceited ass!" "You astonish me. I have never had the good fortune to become acquainted with any of our celebrated writers. I would think it a privilege to know Hodden and some of the others."
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