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Instances were brought up, declared by these friends to be innumerable, but which did, in truth, amount to three or four, of English gentlemen who had come home from a former Carlist war, bearing the title of colonel, without any contradiction or invidious remark. Had this gallant officer appeared as Colonel Tifto, perhaps less might have been said about it.
Now at any rate it was decided for him that he must, in set terms, ask her to be his wife. The scene which had just occurred had made him thoroughly sick of Major Tifto. He must get rid of the Major, and there could be no way of doing this at once so easy and so little open to observation as marriage.
If you can't strap a 'orse without a stick in your hand, don't you strap him at all, you " Then there came a volley of abuse out of the Captain's mouth, in the middle of which the man threw down the rubber he was using and walked away. "You come back," halloed Tifto, jumping up from his seat with his pipe in his mouth.
"This place is as good as any other. For the matter of that I like the Beargarden since we got rid of two or three not very charming characters." "You mean my poor friend Tifto," said Silverbridge. "No; I was not thinking of Tifto. There were one or two here who were quite as bad as Tifto. I wonder what has become of that poor devil?" "I don't know in the least.
Soon after that Major Tifto left the club, with considerably enhanced respect for Mr. Longstaff. Conservative Convictions Lord Silverbridge had engaged himself to be with his father the next morning at half-past nine, and he entered the breakfast-room a very few minutes after that hour. He had made up his mind as to what he would say to his father.
Jawstock I have written to him to this effect. Your obedient Servant, To T. Tifto, Esq., Tallyho Lodge. Poor Tifto, when he got this very curt epistle, was broken-hearted. He did not dare to show it. Day after day he told the livery-stable keeper that he had received no reply, and at last asserted that his appeal had remained altogether unanswered.
"A very useful mare," as Tifto had been in the habit of calling a leggy, thoroughbred, meagre-looking brute named Coalition, was on this occasion confided to the Major's sole care and judgment. But Coalition failed, as coalitions always do, and Tifto had to report to his noble patron that they had not pulled off the event.
After all, what was she but a "pert poppet"? He determined that marriage "clips a fellow's wings confoundedly," and so he set himself to enjoy life after his old fashion. There was perhaps a little swagger as he threw himself into a chair and addressed the happy lover. "I'll be shot if I didn't meet Tifto at the corner of the street." "Tifto!" "Yes, Tifto.
This had been in the sadness and tenderness which had immediately followed the death of the Duchess. Marriage would steady him. Were he a married man, Tifto would of course disappear. Upon the whole he thought it would be good that he should marry. And, if so, who could be so nice as Lady Mabel? That his father would be contented with Lady Mab, he was inclined to believe.
But he was more moved when his friend Tregear spoke to him. "I wish you knew the kind of things that fellow Tifto says behind your back." "As if I cared!" "But you ought to care." "Do you care what every fellow says about you?" "I care very much what those say whom I choose to live with me. Whatever Tifto might say about me would be quite indifferent to me, because we have nothing in common.
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