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`` What did Lord Thirsk say ? '' `` Why , the little man was frightened at first -- and no wonder , for Lugur is big as Saul and as strong as Samson -- but he kept his head and told Lugur he would ` take no orders from him . ' Furthermore , he said he would show his ` admiration of Miss Lugur 's beauty , whenever he felt disposed to do so . ' It was the noon hour and a crowd was in the street , and they gathered round -- for our lads smell a fight -- and they cheered the little lord for his plucky words , and he rode away while they were cheering and left Lugur standing so black and surly that no one cared to pass an opinion he could hear . Indeed , my eldest daughter kept her little lad from school that afternoon . She said someone was bound to suffer for Lugur 's setdown and it was n't going to be her John Henry . '' `` He seems to be an ill-tempered man -- this Lugur , and we do n't want such men in Hatton . ''