"Well, Tony, you may congratulate yourself on having succeeded. I think you can venture now to take a little vacation."
"A vacation! I don't need one."
"Suppose it were spent in Europe?"
"What!" exclaimed Tony, eagerly, "you don't think of our going abroad?"
"Yes. The house with which I am connected wants me to go abroad on business. If I go you may go with me if you would like it."
"Like it!" exclaimed Tony, impetuously. "There is nothing I would like better."
"So I supposed," said George Spencer, smiling. "I may as well tell you that our passage is taken for next Saturday, by the Russia."
"And this is Monday evening. How soon it seems!"
"There won't be much preparation to make—merely packing your trunk."