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To have received the cut discourteous from his future father-in-law might have been the most commonplace of incidents -- Lessingham evinced not a trace of discomposure. So far as I could judge, he took no notice of the episode whatever, behaving exactly as if nothing had happened. He merely waited till Mr. Lindon was well off the steps; then, turning to me, he placidly observed,
"Interrupting you again, you see.