"I couldn't help myself as it happened, but, upon my word it's a deuce of a bore.

A fellow thinks he can do as he likes about going,--but he can't.

It wouldn't do for me to give it up, because--" "Oh no, of course not; where should we all be ?" said Vavasor.
"It's you and me, Grindems," said Maxwell.

"D---- parliament, and now let's have a rubber." They played till three and Mr Calder Jones lost a good deal of money,--a good deal of money in a little way, for they never played above ten-shilling points, and no bet was made for more than a pound or two.

But Vavasor was the winner, and when he left the room he became the subject of some ill-natured remarks.
"I wonder he likes coming in here," said Grindley, who had himself been the man to invite him to belong to the club, and who had at one time indulged the ambition of an intimacy with George Vavasor.
"I can't understand it," said Calder Jones, who was a little bitter about his money.