By-the-bye, what is the date?
Ah! that's fortunate.

To-morrow I am booked to take the chair at the Institute; a lecture--I don't know by whom, or about what.

A good opportunity for setting things astir." "Then you do take some part in town life ?" "Most exceptional thing.

I must have refused to lecture and to chairmanize twenty times.

But those fellows are persistent; they caught me in a weak moment a few days ago.