Good-bye, my pretty little Jill; some day you'll have to call me cousin Roger, and then we'll be quits.

Good night, gentlemen and ladies all.

The prodigal's return has not been a success, I own, but it's a fact all the same.

_Au revoir_." And he bowed himself out.
"This fellow is either the most impudent villain I ever met," said the Duke, "or there is something in his story." This seemed to be the general impression.

A few, Dr Brandram among them, scoffed irreverently at the whole affair.