There had, no doubt, been a certain degree of intimacy between them, but nothing which made it essential that the captain's difficulties should be exposed to him.

The matter which touched him most closely was the love which both the men had borne to Florence Mountjoy; but Harry did not expect that any allusion to Florence would be made on the present occasion.
"Did you ever hear of such a devil of a mess ?" said Augustus.
"No, indeed.

It is not only that he has disappeared--" "That is as nothing when compared with all the other incidents of this romantic tale.

Indeed, it is the only natural thing in it.

Given all the other circumstances, I should have foretold his disappearance as a thing certain to occur.