EXPLOIT THE FIFTH.
HE DEALS WITH DON JUAN.
I.
HAVERLEY OF THE GREYS.
My friend Captain O’Hagan is a man fatally easy to misjudge; a man
monstrously difficult to appreciate. Arraign him before a bar of his
peers, and no two findings would march in step, no two voices be in
unison. If we except the critic of the _Tailor and Cutter_, I doubt,
indeed, if there be a man in London who perceives the exquisite
distinction of O’Hagan’s dress. His mode of going hatless is dubbed
affectation; his purple-lined cloak an ostentatious extravagance.
But some there are who instinctively detect O’Hagan’s sterling
qualities; some (as myself) achieve to this knowledge; and some have it
thrust upon them.