I will send a note, requesting him to breakfast with me to-morrow morning, and have a little conversation with him.

I do not wish to frighten him; he would not scruple to run back to Forest Hill--now I wish to keep him if I possibly can." "You are right, sir; his father appears his greatest enemy.

What a pity that a man with so good a heart should be so weak in the head! Then, sir, I shall take no notice of this at present, but leave the whole affair in your hands." "Do, Sawbridge; you have obliged me very much by your kindness in this business." Mr Sawbridge then took his leave, and Captain Wilson despatched a note to our hero, requesting the pleasure of his company to breakfast at nine o'clock the ensuing morning.

The answer was in the affirmative, but verbal, for Jack had drunk too much champagne to trust his pen to paper..