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` Thank you , yes ; I 've got to dine with these fellows at the Railway Hotel at eight , but I wanted to speak to you first , Wilmet , ' said Mr. Audley , sitting down as if he were weary of his day . ` How is the boy ? ' ` Better . He has been quite sensible ever since he woke at twelve o'clock to-day , only he was dreadfully upset about poor Diego -- about whom his father told him very abruptly -- without the least notion he would feel it so much . ' ` I wish I had the kicking of that father , ' observed Felix , driving the knife hard into the loaf . ` He is not altogether such a bad fellow , ' said Mr. Audley thoughtfully . ` Not for an American , perhaps . '