I could afford to wait a little.

I thought he would walk home on the night I met him.

He had gone into town in Colonel Strafford's carriage.

It returned early in the afternoon without him.

I knew his habits; he dined at Keating's ordinary at four o'clock; and Mercer, whom he had to speak with, would not see him, on his bill of exchange business, in his counting-house.