The things we do!

Crowds gathered at the King's Arms, and waited round
Mr. Speers the lawyer's house, into which Sir Barnes was carried. In vain
policemen told them to move on; fresh groups gathered after the seceders.
On the next day, when Barnes Newcome, who was not much hurt, had a fly to
go home, a factory man shook his fist in at the carriage window, and,
with a curse, said, "Serve you right, you villain." It was the man whose
sweetheart this Don Juan had seduced and deserted years before; whose
wrongs were well known amongst his mates, a leader in the chorus of
hatred which growled round Barnes Newcome.
Barnes's mother and sister Ethel had reached Newcome shortly before the
return of the master of the house. The people there were in disturbance.
Lady Anne and Miss Newcome came out with pallid looks to greet him. He
laughed and reassured them about his accident: indeed his hurt had been
trifling; he had been bled by the surgeon, a little jarred by the fall
from his horse; but there was no sort of danger.


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