Two young men had been standing together in the morning-room of a house in Cadogan Place. The men were half-brothers, the day was the 7th of February, 1854, and the hour was 4 p.m.; and there, when the dialogue ceased, which it did rather abruptly, and when the door had closed on the last and younger of the speakers, the elder, Colonel Henry St. John, was left alone, smoking in front of the fire. Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1871 года (издательство "Tauchnitz").