But I'm quite safe on Templemore; unless the Evil Principle comes into the field." "Is he so sure to be against you, if he does appear ?" said Mrs.Lovell.
"Certain!" ejaculated Algernon, in honest indignation.
"Well, Algy, I don't like to have him on my side.

Perhaps I will take a share in your luck, to make it--?
to make it ?"--She played prettily as a mistress teasing her lap-dog to jump for a morsel; adding: "Oh! Algy, you are not a Frenchman.

To make it divine, sir! you have missed your chance." "There's one chance I shouldn't like to miss," said the youth.
"Then, do not mention it," she counselled him.

"And, seriously, I will take a part of your risk.

I fear I am lucky, which is ruinous.