Don't delay in order to compliment me," said the Duke, smiling still.
"I leant across the table, sir, and I made him a speech that sent him, to all seeming, half-way out of his senses; for he sprang up, seized his case, looked at the fastenings, saw to the priming of his pistol, and finally presumed to exact from me a promise that I would consult nobody as to the perplexity into which this strange behaviour of his had flung me.

To that I demurred, and hence the quarrel with which I regret most humbly that your Grace should have been troubled." "I'm obliged to you, Mr Dale.

But what was this wonder-working phrase ?" "Why, sir, just the first that came into my head.

I said to the gentleman--to M.de Fontelles, as I understand him to be called--I said to him softly and gently--_Je viens, tu viens_----" The Duke seized me by the arm, with a sudden air of excitement.

Carford stepped forward and stood beside him.
"_Je viens, tu viens_....