text:  Brown happened to be present; (for though not good company enough for the dean he was for his betters; your _parvenu_ is far more exclusive in his society than your born gentleman;) he quietly enquired into the facts; and finding that what he had before been inclined to consider as undue severity in his own case was positively an injustice compared with that of another appreciating thoroughly the character of the party he had to deal with and coupling the present with certain previous minor snubbings from the same quarter he from that moment declared war