Eat something now." "You're a good old fellow, Will.

I'll drink your health, old boy, and farewell to--" "No, no; two glasses are enough," Dobbin interrupted him.

"Here, take away the liqueurs, John.

Have some cayenne-pepper with your fowl.
Make haste though, for it is time we were there." It was about half an hour from twelve when this brief meeting and colloquy took place between the two captains.

A coach, into which Captain Osborne's servant put his master's desk and dressing-case, had been in waiting for some time; and into this the two gentlemen hurried under an umbrella, and the valet mounted on the box, cursing the rain and the dampness of the coachman who was steaming beside him.