"At the same time, understand me distinctly, that I hold myself perfectly eligible to winning the wager by my own interference; for if you do kiss her, by Jove! I'll perform the remainder of the compact." "So I understand the agreement," said Webber, arranging his curls before the looking-glass.

"Well, now, who's for Howth?
The drag will be here in half an hour." "Not I," said Power; "I must return to the barracks." "Nor I," said I, "for I shall take this opportunity of leaving my card at Sir George Dashwood's." "I have won my fifty, however," said Power, as we walked out in the courts.
"I am not quite certain--" "Why, the devil, he would not risk a broken neck for that sum; besides, if he did, he loses the bet." "He's a devilish keen fellow." "Let him be.

In any case I am determined to be on my guard here." So chatting, we strolled along to the Royal Hospital, when, having dropped my pasteboard, I returned to the college..