Roger Carbury had but one saddle horse,--a favourite old hunter that he loved as a friend.
And now this dear old friend, whose legs probably were not quite so good as they once were, was being galloped along the hard road by that odious cub! 'Soda and brandy!' Roger exclaimed to himself almost aloud, thinking of the discomfiture of that early morning.

'He'll die some day of delirium tremens in a hospital!' Before the Longestaffes left London to receive their new friends the Melmottes at Caversham, a treaty had been made between Mr Longestaffe, the father, and Georgiana, the strong-minded daughter.

The daughter on her side undertook that the guests should be treated with feminine courtesy.

This might be called the most-favoured-nation clause.

The Melmottes were to be treated exactly as though old Melmotte had been a gentleman and Madame Melmotte a lady.