However, if you want more, you will be able to draw it." "Thank you very much, sir! I will not detain you any longer, now; but will, if you will allow me, come in to say goodbye before I start.
Captain Ewart is waiting to speak to you.

He came with me from Lord Cromer's." Captain Ewart then went in, and after settling the business on which he had come, asked Mr.Murray questions about Gregory, and received a sketch of his story.
"He seems to be a fine young fellow," he said, "well grown and active, not at all what one would expect from a product of Cairo." "No, indeed.

Of course, you have not seen him to advantage, in that black suit, but in his ordinary clothes I should certainly take him, if I had not seen him before, to be a young lieutenant freshly come out to join." "Did you know the father ?" "No, I was not here at that time; but the mother was a lady, every inch.

It is strange that neither of them should have friends in England.

It may be that she preferred to earn her living here, and be altogether independent." "She had a pension, hadn't she ?" "A small one, but she really earned her living by teaching.