I could not stay away without laying myself open to a charge of ingratitude.

They were very kind to me in the old days.' Then the subject was dropped; and on the next morning, John wrote to his aunt saying that he would go over to Babington after his return from London.

He was going to London on business, and would come back from London to Babington on a day which he named.

Then he resolved that he would take Pollington on his way down, knowing that a disagreeable thing to be done is a lion in one's path which should be encountered and conquered as soon as possible.
But there was one visit which he must pay before he went up to London.
'I think I shall ride over to-morrow and call on the Boltons,' he said to his father.
'Of course; you can do that if you please.' 'He was a little rough to me, but he was kind.

I stayed a night at his house, and he advanced me the money.' 'As for the money, that was a matter of business.