He rubbed his hands and drank two extra glasses of wine.
"We'll have the Brownes to dinner, as usual, next Thursday," said he, "I am sure your mother would have been hurt if we had omitted it; it is now nine years since they began to come, and they have never missed one Christmas since.

Do you see any objection, Frank ?" "None at all, sir," answered he.

"I intend to go up to town soon after Christmas, for a week or ten days, on my way to Cambridge.

Can I do anything for you ?" "Well, I don't know.

I think I shall go up myself some day soon.