I told you I would; and I DID.

I had you the very next day.

Let this be a lesson to you, Percy my boy; don't try your luck again against such old hands: look deuced well before you leap: audi alteram partem, my lad, which means, read both sides of the will.

I think lunch is ready; but I see you don't smoke.

Shall we go in ?" "Stop, my lord," says Mr.Deuceace, very humble: "I shall not share your hospitality--but--but you know my condition; I am penniless--you know the manner in which my wife has been brought up--" "The Honorable Mrs.Deuceace, sir, shall always find a home here, as if nothing had occurred to interrupt the friendship between her dear mother and herself." "And for me, sir," says Deuceace, speaking faint, and very slow; "I hope--I trust--I think, my lord, you will not forget me ?" "Forget you, sir; certainly not." "And that you will make some provision-- ?" "Algernon Deuceace," says my lord, getting up from the sophy, and looking at him with sich a jolly malignity, as I never see, "I declare, before heaven, that I will not give you a penny!" Hereupon my lord held out his hand to Mrs.Deuceace, and said, "My dear, will you join your mother and me?
We shall always, as I said, have a home for you." "My lord," said the poar thing, dropping a curtsy, "my home is with HIM!".