Chapter 35
V Victis Crosbie had two engagements for that day; one being his natural engagement to do his work at his office, and the other an engagement, which was now very often becoming as natural, to dine at St. John's Wood with Lady Amelia Gazebee. It was manifest to him when he looked at himself in the glass hat he could keep neither of these engagements. "Oh, laws, Mr Crosbie," the woman of the house exclaimed when she saw him. "Yes, I know," said he. "I've had an accident and got a black eye. What's a good thing for it?" "Oh! an accident!" said the woman, who knew well that that mark had been made by another man's fist. "They do say that a bit of raw beef is about the best thing. But then it must be held on constant all the morning." Anything would be better than leeches, which t
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