When the footman had been discussed for a week it became quite clear to the master that he also was a necessary.
As he drove home that morning he pronounced to himself the doom of that footman, and the doom also of that saddle-horse.

They at any rate should go.

And then he would spend no more money in trips to Scotland; and above all, he would keep out of the bedrooms of impoverished members of Parliament at the witching hour of midnight.
Such resolves did he make to himself as he drove home; and bethought himself wearily how that L400 might be made to be forthcoming.

As to any assistance in the matter from Sowerby,--of that he gave himself no promise.

But he almost felt himself happy again as his wife came out into the porch to meet him with a silk shawl over her head, and pretending to shiver as she watched him descending from his gig.