"I have got something very decent to drive in." Margaret laughed at the implied invitation.
"How you take things for granted," said she.

"Did you really think I would have gone with you ?" "Such things have happened," said the Duke good-humouredly, and went away.

Not being in the least a ladies' man, he was very apt to make such speeches occasionally.

He had a habit of taking it for granted that no one refused his invitations.
At four o'clock that afternoon Silas B.Barker junior drew up to the steps of the hotel in a very gorgeous conveyance, called in America a T-cart, and resembling a mail phaeton in build.

From the high double box Mr.Barker commanded and guided a pair of showy brown horses, harnessed in the most approved philanthropic, or rather philozooic style; no check-rein, no breeching, no nothing apparently, except a pole and Mr.
Barker's crest.