"I'd give anything I have in the world," he said, "that you hadn't come up at all." "Things have been so unfortunate!" "Why the deuce wouldn't you go when I told you ?" "Who on earth would have thought that they'd have been so punctual?
They never are punctual on the Great Eastern.

It was an infernal shame.

I think I shall go at once to Harnage and tell him all about it." Mr.Harnage was Lord Gerald's tutor.
"But you've been in ever so many rows before." "Well,--I've been gated, and once when they'd gated me I came right upon Harnage on the bridge at King's." "What sort of a fellow is he ?" "He used to be good-natured.

Now he has taken ever so many crotchets into his head.

It was he who began all this about none of the men going to the Derby." "Did you ask him yourself for leave ?" "Yes.