I have got to be at my office, and I only just came up here to find out your brother's address." Then he rose and went, leaving the note behind him.
Then Madam Gordeloup, speaking to herself in French, called Harry Clavering a lout, a fool, an awkward, overgrown boy, and a pig.

She declared him to be a pig nine times over, then shook herself in violent disgust, and after that betook herself to the letter.
The letter was at any rate duly sent to the count, for before Harry had left Mr.Beilby's chambers on that day, Pateroff came to him there.
Harry sat in the same room with other men, and therefore went out to see his acquaintance in a little antechamber that was used for such purposes.

As he walked from one room to the other, he was conscious of the delicacy and difficulty of the task before him, and the color was high in his face as he opened the door.

But when he had done so, he saw that the count was not alone.

A gentleman was with him whom he did not introduce to Harry, and before whom Harry could not say that which he had to communicate.
"Pardon me," said the count, "but we are in a railroad hurry.