The things we do!

A jovial fellow was
this partner--a capital convivial member of the Jolly Britons, where he
used to sit very late, so as to be in readiness for any night-work that
might come in.
So the Britons were all sitting, smoking, drinking, and making merry, in
the Boscawen Room, when Jenkins enters with a note, which he straightway
delivers to Mr. Vidler's partner. "From Rosebury? The Princess ill again,
I suppose," says the surgeon, not sorry to let the company know that he
attends her. "I wish the old girl would be ill in the daytime. Confound
it," says he, "what's this----" and he reads out, "'Sir Newcome est de
retour. Bon voyage, mon ami.--F.' What does this mean?"
"I thought you knew French, Jack Harris," says Tom Potts; "you're always
bothering us with your French songs."
"Of course I know French," says the other; "but what's the meaning of
this?"
"Screwcome came back by the five o'clock train. I was in it, and his
royal highness would scarcely speak to me. Took Brown's fly from the
station.


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