He was speaking at the debating society that night, and his enthusiasm quite carried me away." "And how we shall miss him here," said Scrymgeour, "and in my house-boat! I think I had better sell the house-boat.

Do you remember his favorite seat at the door of the saloon ?" "Do you know," said Marriot, looking a little scared, "I thought I would be the first of our lot to go.

Often I have kept him up late in this very room talking of my own troubles, and little guessing why he sometimes treated them a little testily." So they talked, meaning very well, and by and by it struck one o'clock.
A cold shiver passed through me, and Marriot jumped from his chair.
It had been agreed that I should begin my last pipe at one precisely.
Whatever my feelings were up to this point I had kept them out of my face, but I suppose a change came over me now.

I tried to lift my brier from the table, but my hand shook and the pipe tapped, tapped on the deal like an auctioneer's hammer.
"Let me fill it," Jimmy said, and he took my old brier from me.

He scraped it energetically so that it might hold as much as possible, and then he filled it.