"Well, I'm ready, if you are.

But, I say, Jack, is somebody else ready, too?
Are you quite sure of that ?" He smiled as he spoke--a frightful smile--and laid a very strong emphasis on those two words, "Somebody else." There is evidently a third ruffian, a nameless desperado, concerned in the business.
"Meet us to-morrow," says Jack, "and judge for yourself.

Be in the Regent's Park at eleven in the morning, and look out for us at the turning that leads to the Avenue Road." "I'll be there," says Mr.Jay.

"Have a drop of brandy-and-water?
What are you getting up for?
You're not going already ?" "Yes, I am," says Jack.

"The fact is, I'm so excited and agitated that I can't sit still anywhere for five minutes together.