I will make no observations of any kind.

But be good enough to _dress_--it is three o'clock--and leave the house at once.

Let me see your box or boxes before you go." When, an hour later, in the gloaming, Priam Farll stood on the wrong side of his own door, with Henry Leek's heavy kit-bag and Henry Leek's tin trunk flanking him on either hand, he saw that events in his career were moving with immense rapidity.

He had wanted to be free, and free he was.

Quite free! But it appeared to him very remarkable that so much could happen, in so short a time, as the result of a mere momentary impulsive prevarication.
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