Just feel my pulse, Merton.

I am afraid I am very weak." Mr.Merton felt his pulse and shook his head.

"There isn't a pulse, so to speak." "Oh yes; but it is irregular.

If you will exert yourself so violently--" "That is all very well; but a man has to exert himself sometimes, let the penalty be what it may.

When do you think that Sir William will have to come again ?" Sir William, when he came, would come with his knife, and his advent was always to be feared.
"It depends very much on yourself, Mr.Scarborough.I don't think he can come very often, but you can make the distances long or short.