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``` The landlord of the inn , where the coach stopped , directed me here , ' said I. ` I doubted at first the accuracy of his information , not being aware that you had such a residence as this . ' ``` Oh , it is all right ! ' he replied , ` only I was kept half an hour behind time , waiting for you -- that is all . I thought you must be coming by the eight o'clock coach . ' `` I expressed regret that he had had to wait ; he made no answer , but stirred the fire , as if to cover a movement of impatience ; then he scanned me again . `` I felt an inward satisfaction that I had not , in the first moment of meeting , betrayed any warmth , any enthusiasm ; that I had saluted this man with a quiet and steady phlegm . ``` Have you quite broken with Tynedale and Seacombe ? '