His tone when he spoke again, however, was clear, and almost indifferent.
"I feel," he said, "that it would have been only decently courteous of me to have sought you out before, although I have, as you see, nothing whatever to add to the communications I sent you.

But I have not been a very long time in England, and I have a very evil habit of putting off things concerning which there is no urgency.

I called at Ascough's, and learned that you were in practice in Medchester.

I am now living for a short time not far from here, and reading of the election, I drove in to-night to attend one of the meetings--I scarcely cared which.

I heard your name, saw you on the platform, and called here, hoping to find you." "It was very kind," Brooks said.
He felt curiously tongue-tied.