Othello-like, he scowled after that unconscious Cassio as
the other passed into the club in his lacquered boots.
CHAPTER LXIV
Absit Omen
At the first of the Blackwall festivals, Hobson Newcome was present, in
spite of the quarrel which had taken place between his elder brother and
the chief of the firm of Hobson Brothers and Newcome. But it was the
individual Barnes and the individual Thomas who had had a difference
together; the Bundelcund Bank was not at variance with its chief house of
commission in London; no man drank prosperity to the B. B. C., upon
occasion of this festival, with greater fervour than Hobson Newcome, and
the manner in which he just slightly alluded, in his own little speech of
thanks, to the notorious differences between Colonel Newcome and his
nephew, praying that these might cease some day, and, meanwhile, that the
confidence between the great Indian establishment and its London agents
might never diminish, was appreciated and admired by six-and-thirty
gentlemen, all brimful of claret and enthusiasm, and in that happy state
of mind in which men appreciate and admire everything.
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