Would Harry come down to Tretton and see the old governor?
There was not much to offer him in the way of recreation, but when September came the partridges would abound.

Harry gave a half-promise that he would go to Tretton for a week, and Augustus Scarborough expressed himself as much gratified.

Harry at the moment thought of no reason why he should not go to Tretton, and thus committed himself to the promise; but he afterward felt that Tretton was of all places the last which he ought just at present to visit.
At last Pitcher and the cheese were gone, and young Scarborough produced his cigars.

"I want to smoke directly I've done eating," he said.
"Drinking goes with smoking as well as it does with eating, so there need be no stop for that.

Now, tell me, Annesley, what is it that you think about Mountjoy ?" There was an abruptness in the question which for the moment struck Harry dumb.