"My word! what are we coming to?
Why didn't you come up by the 'bus ?" "I tried to," said I; "you wouldn't stop." "Jim's horses were a bit shy," said he, with a grin.

"They can't be held in when they see a moke.

You should have got in quietly, without their spotting you." I didn't like this fellow.

He appeared to me to think he was funny when he was not.
"Do you know if Tempest has come ?" said I, hoping to impress him a little.
"Who ?" "Tempest--Harry Tempest.

He's at Sharpe's too." "What sort of looking chap is he ?" demanded the youth, who, I suspected, could have told me without any detailed description.
"He's one of the seniors," said I; "he was in the reserve for the Eleven last term." "Oh, that lout?
I hope you aren't a pal of his.