There had been some rivalry between him and Mr.Bonteen, and there was to be a sort of match as to which of the two would kill most birds before lunch.

But there had also been some half promise on Lady Laura's part that she would walk with him up the Linter and come down upon the lake, taking an opposite direction from that by which they had returned with Mr.
Kennedy.
"But you will be shooting all day," she said, when he proposed it to her as they were starting for the moor.

The waggonet that was to take them was at the door, and she was there to see them start.

Her father was one of the shooting party, and Mr.Kennedy was another.
"I will undertake to be back in time, if you will not think it too hot.

I shall not see you again till we meet in town next year." "Then I certainly will go with you,--that is to say, if you are here.
But you cannot return without the rest of the party, as you are going so far." "I'll get back somehow," said Phineas, who was resolved that a few miles more or less of mountain should not detain him from the prosecution of a task so vitally important to him.