“And pray what was the request Edward made?”
“Well, father, it was about this dreadful business.”
“What dreadful business?”
Jack was silent for a few moments, but his father’s stern eyes were fixed upon him, and he stammered out—
“This going abroad.”
“Oh!—Well?”
“He came to beg me to ask you to take him with you.”
“With us,” said Sir John.
“Ye–es, father, if we went.”
“There is no if about it, Jack,” said Sir John quietly; “we are going. Humph! and you wanted to go, Edward?”