[The Claverings by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Claverings CHAPTER XVI 31/34
Where does he live ?" "How should I know? Perhaps nobody knows; no one, perhaps, of all those with whom he associates constantly.
They do not live after our fashion, do they, these foreigners? But you will find him at his club, or hear of him at the house in Mount Street.
You will do it; eh, Harry ?" "I will." "That is my good Harry.
But I suppose you would do anything I asked you. Ah, well; it is good to have one friend, if one has no more.
Look, Harry! if it is not near eleven o'clock! Did you know that you had been here nearly three hours? And I have given you nothing but a cup of tea!" "What else do you think I have wanted ?" "At your club you would have had cigars and brandy-and-water, and billiards, and broiled bones, and oysters, and tankards of beer.
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