Come up stairs with me--I'll take it on myself." "I'm blessed if I take it on _my_self!" returned Geoffrey.

"Open the door!" "Wait here, at any rate," pleaded Julius, "till I can send you down a message." "Send your message to Nagle's Hotel.

I'm at home at Nagle's--I'm not at home here." At that point the discussion was interrupted by the appearance of a little terrier in the hall.

Seeing strangers, the dog began to bark.
Perfect tranquillity in the house had been absolutely insisted on by the doctors; and the servants, all trying together to catch the animal and quiet him, simply aggravated the noise he was making.

Geoffrey solved this problem also in his own decisive way.