The lecture and the toddy ended together.

Turning his head aside, where it lay back in the horse-hair chair, he said sleepily: "Go away--I don't know your name .-- Come and see me to-morrow night.

I'm drunk now." Alec rose, made some attempt at thanks, received no syllable of reply, and went out, closing the door behind him, and leaving Mr Cupples to his dreams.
His countenance had not made much approximation to respectability before the Monday.

He therefore kept it as well as he could out of Mr Fraser's sight, to whom he did not wish to give explanations to the prejudice of any of his fellow-students.

Mr Fraser, however, saw his black eye well enough, but was too discreet to ask questions, and appeared quite unaware of the transitory blemish..