When he saw us grouped he would have drawn back; but in an instant Mr.Trelawny had sprung forth and dragged him forward.

As he shook him by both hands, he seemed a transformed man.

All the enthusiasm of his youth, of which Mr.Corbeck had told us, seemed to have come back to him in an instant.
"So you have got the lamps!" he almost shouted.

"My reasoning was right after all.

Come to the library, where we will be alone, and tell me all about it! And while he does it, Ross," said he, turning to me, "do you, like a good fellow, get the key from the safe deposit, so that I may have a look at the lamps!" Then the three of them, the daughter lovingly holding her father's arm, went into the library, whilst I hurried off to Chancery Lane.
When I returned with the key, I found them still engaged in the narrative; but Doctor Winchester, who had arrived soon after I left, was with them.