All this confidential, of course; but he saw no harm in letting me know.

So now, my boy, you will have your work cut out for you this winter! Two or three evenings a week--you'll not get off with less.

Nobody's plum drops into his mouth nowadays.

Barton tells me, too, that he hears young Wharton will certainly stand for the Durnford division, and will be down upon us directly.

He will make himself as disagreeable to us and the Levens as he can--that we may be sure of.