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"THAT is it! " said Mr. Cheriton, striking his hand on the table, while Amabel and I stood as if dumb. "She told me when I would not come to her card parties on Sunday, that she would send me a bull's head. * And to think of the hours that I have wasted, and worse than wasted in that woman's house-dishonoring my Master's livery. It is a judgment upon me, but this child-what has she done?"
* Alluding to the old Scottish and Northumbrian custom of placing a / bull's head before guests, whose death was determined on.