Bows, who
had a remarkable regard and contempt for this woman, during and after
which repast, the party devised upon the best means of bringing this
love-matter to a close. As for Costigan, his idea of tweaking the Major's
nose vanished with his supply of after-dinner whisky-and-water; and he
was submissive to his daughter, and ready for any plan on which she might
decide, in order to meet the crisis which she saw was at hand.
The Captain, who, as long as he had a notion that he was wronged, was
eager to face and demolish both Pen and his uncle, perhaps shrank from
the idea of meeting the former, and asked "what the juice they were to
say to the lad if he remained steady to his engagement, and they broke
from theirs?" "What? don't you know how to throw a man over?" said Bows;
"ask a woman to tell you?" and Miss Fotheringay showed how this feat was
to be done simply enough--nothing was more easy. "Papa writes to Arthur
to know what settlements he proposes to make in event of a marriage; and
asks what his means are. Arthur writes back and says what he's got, and
you'll find it's as the Major says, I'll go bail.
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