Impossible to decide who first had let it forth! But George Cannon had now fairly seized it and run off with it.

He was almost boyishly excited over it.

The Latin strain in him animated his features and his speech.

He was a poet as he talked of the boarding-house that awaited a mistress.

He had pulled out of his pocket the cutting of an advertisement of it from the London _Daily Telegraph_, a paper that was never seen in Turnhill.