It 's a dreadful encouragement to extravagance, but that 's your lookout.

I 'll stop for their beastly races and the young lady shall be sacred." Longueville called the next morning at Mrs.Vivian's, and learned that the three ladies had left Baden by the early train, a couple of hours before.

This fact produced in his mind a variety of emotions--surprise, annoyance, embarrassment.

In spite of his effort to think it natural they should go, he found something precipitate and inexplicable in the manner of their going, and he declared to himself that one of the party, at least, had been unkind and ungracious in not giving him a chance to say good-bye.

He took refuge by anticipation, as it were, in this reflection, whenever, for the next three or four days, he foresaw himself stopping short, as he had done before, and asking himself whether he had done an injury to Angela Vivian.