You must, however, commence your duties to-day, and as we dine at seven precisely, I shall expect you.

I am aware of your wish to stay in Lisbon, my boy, and if all I hear be true, congratulate you sincerely; but more of this another time, and so good-by." So saying, he shook my hand once more, warmly; and without well feeling how or why, I found myself in the street.
The last few words Sir George had spoken threw a gloom over all my thoughts.

I saw at once that the report Power had alluded to had gained currency at Lisbon.

Sir George believed it; doubtless, Lucy, too; and forgetting in an instant all the emulative ardor that so lately stirred my heart, I took my path beside the river, and sauntered slowly along, lost in my reflections.
I had walked for above an hour before paying any attention to the path I followed.

Mechanically, as it were, retreating from the noise and tumult-of the city, I wandered towards the country.