Filipe Club in the
evening, as they were playing poker, Rangely had excused the absence of
Mr. Staggchase, who was to be of the party, by telling this fact.
After Hubbard was gone, Fenton stood half dizzy with mingled exultation
and shame. He exulted in his victory, but he felt as if he had
committed murder.
And that evening Mrs. Amanda Welsh Sampson received a note from Mr.
Irons, in which Feltonville was mentioned.
XV
LIKE COVERED FIRE.
Much Ado about Nothing; iii.--2.
Mrs. Amanda Welsh Sampson was playing a somewhat difficult game, and
she was playing it well. She was entertaining Mr. Greenfield, the
Feltonville member, and she had also as a casual guest for the evening,
Mr. Erastus Snaffle, and successfully to work the one off against the
other was a task from which the cleverest of society women might be
excused for shrinking, even had it been presented to her in terms of
her own circle.
Greenfield was an honest, straightforward countryman; big, and rather
burly, with a clear eye and a curling chestnut beard. He was a man at
once of great force of character, and of singular simplicity. He
exerted a vast influence in his country neighborhood in virtue of the
respect inspired by his invincible integrity, a certain shrewdness
which was the more effective at short range from the fact that it was
really narrow in its spread, and perhaps most of all of his bluff,
demonstrative kindliness.
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