'But he is better.

The surgeon has extracted the ball and pronounces him out of danger.' 'I am glad to hear it,' Soane answered heartily.

'Then, now I can get away.' '_A volonte_!' cried Mr.Thomasson in his happiest vein.

And then with a roguish air, which some very young men found captivating, but which his present companion stomached with difficulty, 'I will not say that you have come off the better, after all, Sir George,' he continued.
'Ah!' 'No,' said the tutor roguishly.

'Tut-tut.