Oh, the never-ceasing irony of things! That his father should have died at such a moment.
"Dead ?" quoth he.

"Dead?
Is my lord dead?
They told me he was recovering." "They told you false," answered Rotherby.

"So now--those papers!" Mr.Caryll relinquished them.

"Take them," he said.

"Since that is so--take them." Rotherby received them himself.