Did you like it too?
That last break-down wasn't up to the other, but I'm glad you've seen one of them, at any rate." As they crowded out, Mr Armstrong was surprised and a little vexed to see Gustav still hanging about the lobby waiting for him.

He dropped behind the boy for a moment and beckoned him.
"Well, Gustav ?" said he impatiently.
"Ah, _mon ami_," said the Frenchman, putting a little bunch of early violets into the tutor's hands, "vill you give 'im zese from me?
'Tis all I can send.

But he will love zem for the sake of me and ze little Francoise.

Adieu, adieu, _mon cher ami_." It took not a minute; but in that time Tom had wandered serenely on, never dreaming that his protector was not close at his heels.

Nor did he discover his mistake till he found himself half-way up Piccadilly, enlarging to a stranger at his side on the excellence of the evening's performance.