"I don't mind the heat much, and one doesn't feel it, while one is at work." "Hartley has not tried that, yet," one of the others laughed.

"Work is not in his line.

This most unfortunate illness of his kept him back at Cairo, and he brought such a supply of ice with him, when he came up, that he was able to hand over a hundredweight of it to us when he arrived.

I don't think, Major, that in introducing him you should have omitted to mention that, but for a temporary misfortune, he would be the Marquis of Langdale; but in another two years he will blossom out into his full title, and then I suppose we shall lose him." Gregory, whose knowledge of the English peerage was extremely limited, looked puzzled.
"May I ask how that is ?" he said.

"I always thought that the next heir to a title succeeded to it, as soon as his father died." "As a rule that is the case," the Major said, "but the present is an exceptional one.