Ravenswood could not choose but bow; but his manner returned the scorn
with which he had been greeted.
"Allow me," she said, "to present to your lordship MY friend."
Craigengelt, with the forward impudence which men of his cast mistake
for ease, made a sliding bow to the Marquis, which he graced by a
flourish of his gold-laced hat. The lady turned to her husband. "You
and I, Sir William," she said, and these were the first words she had
addressed to him, "have acquired new acquaintances since we parted; let
me introduce the acquisition I have made to mine--Captain Craigengelt."
Another bow, and another flourish of the gold-laced hat, which was
returned by the Lord Keeper without intimation of former recognition,
and with that sort of anxious readiness which intimated his wish that
peace and amnesty should take place betwixt the contending parties,
including the auxiliaries on both sides. "Let me introduce you to the
Master of Ravenswood," said he to Captain Craigengelt, following up the
same amicable system.
But the Master drew up his tall form to the full extent of his height,
and without so much as looking towards the person thus introduced to
him, he said, in a marked tone: "Captain Craigengelt and I are already
perfectly well acquainted with each other.
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