He's been too bad to answer questions all day.
And then we knew you'd soon be here to tell us." "A foreigner, I suppose ?" "I should say he was, sir." "And did he really tell you I had sent him ?" "Well, I can't say he did, not in so many words, but that was what I thought he meant.

It was like this, sir," continued Mrs.Brunton, as they stood face to face on the wet gravel: "just about this time yesterday I was busy ironing, when my nephew, the lad you used to send with letters, who's here again for his summer holidays, comes to me an' says, 'You're wanted.' So I went, and there was a young gentleman looking fit to drop.

He'd a bag with him, and he'd walked all the way from Upthorpe station, same as I suppose you have now; but yesterday was the hottest day we've had, and I never did see living face so like the dead.

He had hardly life enough to ask if this was where you lived; and when I said it was, but you were away, he nodded and said he'd just seen you in London; and he was sure he might come in and rest a bit.

Well, sir, I not only let him do that, but you never will lock up anything, so I gave him a good sup o' your whiskey too!" "Quite right," said Langholm--"and then ?" "It seemed to pull him together a bit, and he began to talk.