Chapter 27: XXVI

XXVI He beats me and I rail at him: O worthy satisfaction! would it were otherwise—that I could beat him while he railed at me. Troilus and Cressida But Fred did not go to Stone Court the next day, for reasons that were quite peremptory. From those visits to unsanitary Houndsley streets in search of Diamond, he had brought back not only a bad bargain in horseflesh, but the further misfortune of some ailment which for a day or two had seemed mere depression and headache, but which …