"The campaign's at an end!--I'm sorry if I've driven your friend away, but I was bound to tell you." "All right.

Let me have a description of the manoeuvres." "Look here, my boy," said O'Gree, with sudden solemnity, "you've never been very willing to talk to me about her.

Now, before I tell you anything, I want to know this.

_Why_ wouldn't you tell me how you first got to know her, and so on ?" "Before I answer, I want to know this: have you found out why I wouldn't ?" "Yes, I have--that is, I suppose I have--and from her own lips, too! You knew her when she lived near the Strand there, eh ?" "I did." "Well now, understand, my boy.

I don't want to hear anything disagreeable; in fact, I won't listen to anything disagreeable;--all I want to know is, whether I may safely tell you what she has told me.