"Colonel Marchbanks, I can look you honestly in the face, and say that
neither in word nor deed have I done you or your daughter wrong."
"No--have you _not_?" shouted the colonel. "Sir! rascal!--there is a
looking-glass over the mantelpiece in the estancia. Go there, look
_yourself_ in the face, and say, if you dare, that you have done me no
wrong!"
He wheeled about violently and strode away, fuming.
Lawrence went to his chamber, wondering at such a display of wrath in
one so genial.
He glanced at the looking-glass in passing through the chief room of the
estancia. The glance revealed to him the fact that there was a large
rich brown patch in the region of his mouth and nose!