We reached Hawk Street before any of the partners had come, and Smith's patience was sorely tried by the waiting.
"I say," said he presently to me, "I must go, Fred.

Will you tell them ?" "Yes, if you like, only--" "Now then, you two," cried Mr Doubleday, looking round; "there you are, larking about as usual.

Go off to your work, young Import, do you hear?
and don't stand grinning there!" Poor Jack looked like anything but grinning at that moment.
"I'll do the best I can," I said, "but I'm afraid Barnacle will be in a wax unless you ask him yourself." "I can't help it," said Jack, "I must go." "Eh?
what's that ?" said Doubleday, who was near enough to hear this conversation; "who must go ?" "Smith has just heard that his sister's ill," I said, by way of explanation, and hoping to enlist the chief clerk's sympathy, "and he must go to her, that's all." "Hullo!" interposed Crow, "you don't mean to say he's got a sister.

My eyes, what a caution! Fancy a female bull's-eye, Wallop, eh ?" "So you may say," said Wallop the cad, laughing.

"I guess I wouldn't fancy her, if she's like brother Johnny." "And he's got to go to her, poor dear thing, because she's got a cold in her nose or something of the sort.