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It was about four o'clock one afternoon, while Charles was smoking a cigar -- for notwithstanding his self-denying resolutions, his case was always replenished still -- that his brother Harry rode into the yard, where he was puffing away contemplatively at an open stable-door.
"Delighted to see you, Harry. I was thinking of you this moment, by Jove, and I can't tell you how glad I am," said Charles, smiling as he advanced, yet with an anxious inquiry in his eyes.