You are looking quite thin and peaky." "Well, I've nearly done with it.

Barnard will be back in about ten days.
His ship is putting in at Madeira to coal and take in some cargo, and then he is coming home.

Where are you going with those chairs ?" "I am going to sit down at the end of the Walk by the garden railings.
It's cooler there than indoors.

If you will wait a moment I will fetch another chair for Jervis, though he won't be back for a little while." He ran up the stairs, and presently returned with a third chair, and we carried our impedimenta down to the quiet corner at the bottom of the Walk.
"So your term of servitude is coming to an end," said he when we had placed the chairs and hung the lantern on the railings.

"Any other news ?" "No.