Well, that's likely enough--that's likely enough!" "By-the-way, where's the young man to stay?
At Abbie's, of course, if--Margaret says, at some good boarding-house.

Well, Abbie's is the only one in town.

It's a singular coincidence, certainly, if it _is_ a coincidence! Perhaps I'd better go down at once and see Abbie, and have the whole matter cleared up.

I shall have time enough before supper, if I harness Dolly now." As Professor Valeyon arrived at this conclusion, he uplifted himself, with some slight signs of the rustiness of age, from his chair, took his brown-linen duster from the balcony railing across which it had been thrown, and put it on, with laborious puffings, and a slight increase of perspiration.

Then, first turning round, to make sure that he had all his belongings with him, he entered the hall-door, and passed through into his study.
The rooms in which we live seem to imbibe something of our characteristics, and the examination of a dwelling-place may not infrequently throw some light upon the inner nature of its occupant.