Then she turned round to the light, and said,-- "My dear partner, I had a headache, and went to the window.

What was the story you were telling Charles, just now?
Who was the man you met in the publichouse, who seems to have frightened you so ?" "No less a man than Captain Touan, my dear cousin!" said Tom, leaning back with the air of a man who has made a point, and would be glad to hear "what you have to say to that, sir." "Touan ?" repeated Mary.

"Why, that's the great bushranger, that is out to the north; is it not ?" "The same man, cousin! And there I sat hob and nob with him for half an hour in the 'Lake George' public-house.

If Desborough had come in, he'd have hung me for being found in bad company.

Ha! ha! ha!" "My dear partner," she said, "what a terrible escape! Suppose he had risen on you ?" "Why I'd have broken his back, cousin," said Tom, "unless my right hand had forgot her cunning.