text:  He had a meeting with Jack;--at which he talked the matter over in a friendly way--telling him that though the Squire must reserve in his own hands the nomination of his own ushers he had always been perfectly willing to listen to reason in any objections that might be taken to them; only some reason he must have were it only that Jack could not abide the sight of a red-nosed usher:--let that reason such as it was be put on paper and he would consider of it; and if from any peculiar idiosyncracy in Jack's temperament and constitution he found that his antipathy to red noses was unsuperable probably he would not insist on filling up the vacancy with a nose of that colour