I mean to go.

I want to see what he's like; I'm not at all sure that I like him." "Poor beggar!" murmured Barnworth.

"Now my doubt is whether he likes me.

He ought to, oughtn't he, Staff ?" "Why, yes!" replied that amiable youth; "he doesn't look as if he was very particular." "Oh, thanks, awfully!" replied Barnworth.
The amiable coloured up more than ever.
"I really didn't mean that," he said, horrified at his unconscious joke.
"I mean he doesn't seem strict, or as if he'd be hard to get on with." "I hope he's not," said Ainger, with a frown.

"We had enough of that with Moss." "Well," said Felgate, "if you are going, I suppose I must come too; only take my advice, and don't promise him too much." Railsford meanwhile had transacted a good deal of business of a small kind on his own account.