You know the discomfort caused at night by the half-sleeping sense that a door or window has been left unfastened, or in the day by the remembrance of unanswered letters.

So does that promise haunt me from time to time, and has done to-day particularly.' There was a pause, and they smoked on.

Millborne's eyes, though fixed on the fire, were really regarding attentively a town in the West of England.
'Yes,' he continued, 'I have never quite forgotten it, though during the busy years of my life it was shelved and buried under the pressure of my pursuits.

And, as I say, to-day in particular, an incident in the law- report of a somewhat similar kind has brought it back again vividly.
However, what it was I can tell you in a few words, though no doubt you, as a man of the world, will smile at the thinness of my skin when you hear it.

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