and very smooth light hair - a most respectable
man, who calls himself by a good, sound, well-known English name - as Green, or
Baker, or Wilson, or, let us say, Johnson -«
    Felix was interrupted by an explosion of laughter from a majority of the
bystanders. Some eyes had been turned on Johnson, who stood on the right hand of
Felix, at the very beginning of the description, and these were gradually
followed by others, till at last every hearer's attention was fixed on him, and
the first burst of laughter from the two or three who knew the attorney's name,
let every one sufficiently into the secret to make the amusement common.
Johnson, who had kept his ground till his name was mentioned, now turned away,
looking unusually white after being unusually red, and feeling by an attorney's
instinct for his pocket-book, as if he felt it was a case for taking down the
names of witnesses.
    All the well-dressed hearers turned away too, thinking they had had the
cream of the speech in the joke against Johnson, which, as a thing worth
telling, helped to recall them to the scene of dinner.
    »Who is this Johnson?« said Christian to a young man who had been standing
near him, and had been one of the first to laugh. Christian's curiosity had
naturally been awakened by what might prove a golden opportunity.
    »O - a London attorney. He acts for Transome. That tremendous fellow at the
corner there is some red-hot Radical demagogue, and Johnson has offended him, I
suppose; else he wouldn't have turned in that way on a man of their own party.«
    »I had heard there was a Johnson who was an understrapper of Jermyn's,« said
Christian.
    »Well, so this man may have been for what I know. But he's a London man now
- a very busy fellow - on his own legs in Bedford Row. Ha ha! It's capital,
though, when these Liberals get a slap in the face from the working men they're
so very fond of.«
    Another turn along the street enabled Christian to come to a resolution.
Having seen Jermyn drive away an hour before, he was in no fear: he walked at
once to the Fox and Hounds and asked to speak to Mr Johnson. A brief interview,
in which Christian ascertained that he had before him the Johnson mentioned by
the bill-sticker, issued in the appointment of a longer one