The sum was improvidently large.

Mr.Pole did not hear aright when he heard it named.

Even at the repetition, he went: "Eh ?" two or three times, vacantly.

The amount was distinctly nailed to his ear: whereupon he said, "Ah!--yes! you young fellows want money: must have it, I suppose.

Up from the bowels of the earth Up from the--: you're sure they're not playing the fool with you, over there ?" Wilfrid understood the indication to Stornley.