Are you going on with your match ?" "No; I'm going to make my way to Loughlinter." "Not alone ?" "Yes, alone." "It's over nine miles.

You can't walk it." Phineas looked at his watch, and found that it was now two o'clock.
It was a broiling day in August, and the way back to Loughlinter, for six or seven out of the nine miles, would be along a high road.

"I must do it all the same," said he, preparing for a start.

"I have an engagement with Lady Laura Standish; and as this is the last day that I shall see her, I certainly do not mean to break it." "An engagement with Lady Laura," said Mr.Kennedy.

"Why did you not tell me, that I might have a pony ready?
But come along.