They'll have him ready for me before the morning, and no trouble to me at all.' 'They'll have him, and we shall have saved ourselves all labour in the matter.' 'True, true.

Well, my way is to Casterbridge; and 'tis as much as my legs will do to take me that far.

Going the same way ?' 'No, I am sorry to say! I have to get home over there' (he nodded indefinitely to the right), 'and I feel as you do, that it is quite enough for my legs to do before bedtime.' The other had by this time finished the mead in the mug, after which, shaking hands heartily at the door, and wishing each other well, they went their several ways.
In the meantime the company of pursuers had reached the end of the hog's- back elevation which dominated this part of the down.

They had decided on no particular plan of action; and, finding that the man of the baleful trade was no longer in their company, they seemed quite unable to form any such plan now.

They descended in all directions down the hill, and straightway several of the party fell into the snare set by Nature for all misguided midnight ramblers over this part of the cretaceous formation.