"Why, then, it seems it required some deliberation whether you opened your door or not.

Why, man, you can have no great gift of prophecy, or you wouldn't have kept me so long there." "And have you been so ?" "Only twenty minutes; for as I saw the key in the lock, I had determined to succeed if noise would do it." "How strange! I never heard it." "Glorious sleeper you must be; but come, my dear fellow, you don't appear altogether awake yet." "I have not been quite well these few days." "Oh, indeed! The Dashwoods thought there must have been something of that kind the matter by your brisk retreat.

They sent me after you yesterday; but wherever you went, Heaven knows.

I never could come up with you; so that your great news has been keeping these twenty-four hours longer than need be." "I am not aware what you allude to." "Well, you are not over likely to be the wiser when you hear it, if you can assume no more intelligent look than that.

Why, man, there's great luck in store for you." "As how, pray?
Come, Power, out with it; though I can't pledge myself to feel half as grateful for my good fortune as I should do.