The things we do!

He was bent on
pleasure. "Hey, lads!" says he; "but we'll make a night of it. We haven't
had a night since the farewell dinner off Plymouth."
"And a jolly night it was, James," ejaculates the Colonel.
"Egad, what a song that Tom Norris sings!"
"And your 'Jock o' Hazeldean' is as good as a play, Jack."
"And I think you beat iny one I iver hard in 'Tom Bowling,' yourself,
Tom!" cries the Colonel's delighted chum. Mr. Pendennis opened the eyes
of astonishment at the idea of the possibility of renewing these
festivities, but he kept the lips of prudence closed. And now the
carriages began to drive up, and the guests of Colonel Newcome to arrive.


CHAPTER XIII
In which Thomas Newcome sings his Last Song

The earliest comers were the first mate and the medical officer of the
ship in which the two gentlemen had come to England. The mate was a
Scotchman: the doctor was a Scotchman; of the gentlemen from the Oriental
Club, three were Scotchmen.
The Southrons, with one exception, were the last to arrive, and for a
while we stood looking out of the windows awaiting their coming.


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