Oh, yes! I know all about it; and now I am going out walking in the park with Dick, and I should advise you to compose yourself, for that artist is coming to draw you at twelve." And she departed and left Augusta to her reflections, which were--well, not unpleasant ones.
Meanwhile Eustace was marching towards the Temple.

As it happened, in the same lodging-house where he had been living for the last few months, two brothers of the name of Short had rooms, and with these young gentlemen he had become very friendly.

The two Shorts were twins, and so like one another that it was more than a month before Eustace could be sure which of them he was speaking to.

When they were both at college their father died, leaving his property equally between them; and as this property on realisation was not found to amount to more than four hundred a year, the twins very rightly concluded that they had better do something to supplement their moderate income.

Accordingly, by a stroke of genius they determined that one of them should become a solicitor and the other a barrister, and then tossed up as to which should take to which trade.