"But, at any rate, you can wash your hands, and get rid of the blood.

I'll be down in the little drawing-room five minutes before seven, and I suppose I'll find you there." At five minutes before seven Lord De Guest came into the small drawing-room, and found Johnny seated there, with a book before him.
The earl was a little fussy, and showed by his manner that he was not quite at his ease, as some men do when they have any piece of work on hand which is not customary to them.

He held something in his hand, and shuffled a little as he made his way up the room.

He was dressed, as usual, in black; but his gold chain was not, as usual, dangling over his waistcoat.
"Eames," he said, "I want you to accept a little present from me,--just as a memorial of our affair with the bull.

It will make you think of it sometimes, when I'm perhaps gone." "Oh, my lord--" "It's my own watch, that I have been wearing for some time; but I've got another,--two or three, I believe, somewhere upstairs.