How long did you and my boy sit up together--isn't he a fine lad, Binnie?
I expect you are going to put him down for something handsome in your will." "See what it is to have a real friend now, Colonel! I sate up for ye, or let us say more correctly, I waited for you--because I knew you would want to talk about that scapegrace of yours.

And if I had gone to bed, I should have had you walking up to No.

28, and waking me out of my first rosy slumber.

Well, now confess; avoid not.

Haven't ye fallen in love with some young beauty on the very first night of your arrival in your sister's salong, and selected a mother-in-law for young Scapegrace ?" "Isn't he a fine fellow, James ?" says the Colonel, lighting a cheroot as he sits on the table.