The things we do!

Sir Barnes breakfasted rather late on
the first morning after an arrival at Newcome. He had to look over the
bailiff's books, and to look about him round the park and grounds; to
curse the gardeners; to damn the stable and kennel grooms; to yell at the
woodman for clearing not enough or too much; to rail at the poor old
workpeople brooming away the fallen leaves, etc. So Lady Clara was up and
dressed when her husband went to her room, which lay at the end of the
house as we have said, the last of a suite of ancestral halls.
The mutinous servant heard high voices and curses within; then Lady
Clara's screams; then Sir Barnes Newcome burst out of the room, locking
the door and taking the key with him, and saluting with more curses
James, the mutineer, over whom his master ran.
"Curse your wife, and don't curse me, Sir Barnes Newcome!" said James,
the mutineer; and knocked down a hand which the infuriated Baronet raised
against him, with an arm that was twice as strong as Barnes's own.


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