"By Jove!"
"And you'll cheer my heart, old fellow."
"Heavens and earth! old boy, you don't seem to think that this is going to be no end of a bore."
"I know it, old man; but then, you know, I'm desperate just now."
"By Jove!"
And Hawbury, uttering this exclamation, relapsed into silence, and wondered over his friend's infatuation.
On the following day when Dacres came in he found that Hawbury had kept his word.
"Great bore, old fellow," said he; "but I did it. The old lady is an old acquaintance, you know. I'm going there to-morrow again. Didn't see any thing to-day of the child-angel. But it's no end of a bore, you know."
