I've got bad news, d----d bad news, if that will make you sleep the sounder.

And, once for all, you'll find it best, when you see me sulky, not to give me any of your tantrums in addition.

Mind that." He had never spoken to her like that before.

She went to her bed crushed and miserable, and spent the night in crying, while he went forth and spent the night with some of his new companions, playing wildly and losing recklessly, till the summer morning sun streamed through the shutters, and shone upon him desperate and nigh penniless, ripe for a fall lower than any he had had as yet..