We met nothing, luckily; and I pulled the horses in after a mile or two, and I drove 'em into Brighton as quiet as if I had been driving a hearse.

And that little trump of an Ethel, what do you think she said?
She said, 'I was not frightened, but you must not tell mamma.' My aunt, it appears, was in a dreadful commotion--I ought to have thought of that." "Lady Anne is a ridiculous old dear.

I beg your pardon, Lady Kew," here breaks in Jack the apologiser.
"There is a brother of Sir Brian Newcome's staying with them," Lord Kew proceeds; "an East India Colonel--a very fine-looking old boy." "Smokes awfully, row about it in the hotel.

Go on, Kew; beg your----" "This gentleman was on the look-out for us, it appears, for when we came in sight he despatched a boy who was with him, running like a lamplighter back to my aunt, to say all was well.

And he took little Alfred out of the carriage, and then helped out Ethel, and said, 'My dear, you are too pretty to scold; but you have given us all a belle peur.' And then he made me and Jack a low bow, and stalked into the lodgings." "I think you do deserve to be whipped, both of you," cries Lady Kew.
"We went up and made our peace with my aunt, and were presented in form to the Colonel and his youthful cub." "As fine a fellow as ever I saw: and as fine a boy as ever I saw," cries Jack Belsize.