There was a flush in his cheeks, and he breathed rapidly.

The emotion that possessed him could not be altogether pleasurable, for at moments he cast his eyes about him with a pained, almost a desperate look.

He walked up and down with clenched fist, occasionally digging himself in the side.
"Toby," he burst out at length, "let me think this over I can't possibly decide at once.

The notion is absolutely new to me; I must roll it about, and examine it on all sides." Mr.Liversedge cheerfully agreed, and, after a little more talk, he went his way to business, leaving Denzil alone in the snuggery.

There sat the young man in deep but troubled meditation.