Where do you think that I have been ?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit ?" "Exactly.

My body has remained in this armchair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day.

I flatter myself that I could find my way about." "A large-scale map, I presume ?" "Very large." He unrolled one section and held it over his knee.

"Here you have the particular district which concerns us.