He seemed anxious lest you should think it was his fault." "Poor chap!" said Lee.

"What a faithful little fellow it is! Would it be asking a liberty if you would take back a letter for me, sir ?" I said, "No; certainly not." "I am much obliged to you, sir," he said.

"I am glad Dick has got with A GENTLEMAN." That letter was of some importance to me, though I did not know it till after, but I may as well say why now.

Lee had been a favourite servant of my father's, and when he got into trouble my father had paid a counsel to defend him.

Lee never forgot this, and this letter to Dick was shortly to the effect that I was one of the RIGHT SORT, and was to be taken care of, which injunction Dick obeyed to the very letter, doing me services for pure good will, which could not have been bought for a thousand a-year.
After breakfast arose the question, "What is to be done ?" Which Troubridge replied to by saying: "What could any sensible man do such weather as this, but get into the water and stop there ?" "Shall it be, 'All hands to bathe,' then ?" said the Major.
"You won't be without company," said Mrs.Buckley, "for the black fellows are camped in the bend, and they spend most of their time in the water such a day as this." So James and Troubridge started for the river with their towels, the Major and I promising to follow them immediately, for I wanted to look at my horse, and the Major had also something to do in the paddock.