"Come, are you going to give me what you promised or not?
If you 'aint, clear out of here, my beauty, or I'll break every bone of your ugly body." And since, with a stick in her hand, she looked very like putting her threat into execution, the captain beat a hasty retreat, chuckling to himself at the thought of his own excellent cleverness.
"Upon my word," said he to himself as he strolled westward, "I am having a most interesting time.

What a versatile genius my co-trustee appears to be--a tutor to an heir, a defaulting and rusticated undergraduate, a penniless music-hall cad.

Dear, dear! what a curious settlement of scores we shall have, to be sure--or rather, should have had, had our poor dear Roger remained with us.

Heigho! what a curious sensation it will be, to be sure, to own a fortune." At the hotel the porter met him with a telegram.

He expected as much.
He could guess what was inside.