Your position doesn't allow anything of the kind.' 'All right,' said Richard, his ill-humour gone; 'I'll see to it.' He was not able, after all, to catch the early train by which he had meant to take his brother to Wanley.

He did not like to leave without some kind of good-bye to his mother, and Alice said that the old woman would not be ready to go before eleven o'clock.

After half an hour of restlessness he sat down to answer Daniel's letter.

Keene's flattery had not been without its fruit.

From anger which had in it an element of apprehension he passed to an arrogant self-confidence which character and circumstances were conspiring to make his habitual mood.