Your father gave, if I remember rightly, a five pound note for it.

I will give you a thousand for it sooner than be disturbed." Hamel frowned slightly.
"I could not possibly think," he said, "of selling what was practically a gift to my father.

You are welcome to occupy the place during my absence in any way you wish.

On the other hand, I do not think that I care to part with it altogether, and I should really like to spend just a day or so here.

I am used to roughing it under all sorts of conditions--much more used to roughing it than I am to staying at country houses." Mr.Fentolin leaned a little out of his carriage.