A thousand pounds is the price of him, body and soul.

I bade him seek not only evidence of my lord's having received that plaguey stock, but also papers relating to this Jacobite plot into which his lordship has been drawn by our friend Caryll.

He is at his work at present.

And I shall hear from him when it is accomplished." She nodded slowly, thoughtfully.

"You have very well disposed, Charles," she approved him.