Indeed, it ought to be a good deal heartier, for you have been living among them all your life, while I have been away for the most part ever since I was a boy." Four days later they went down to Chippenham.

Mr.Norton, the steward, was on the platform when the train came in.
"Welcome home again, sir," he said warmly, as Frank stepped from the carriage.

"We were all glad, indeed, when we heard that you were back safe, and were coming down among us." "I am glad enough to be back again, Norton," Frank Mallett said; as he shook the man's hand.

"We had warm work of it for a bit, but at the end, when the excitement was over, one got pretty tired of it.
"This is George Lechmere, Norton," the Major said, as he went along with the agent to where George was standing with the pile of luggage.

"You have heard how gallantly he behaved, and how he saved my life at the risk of his own." "How are you, George ?" the agent said, as he shook hands with him.
"I should hardly have known you.