The design to black them finely was attributable to the dyeing accuracy of the stroke.

A single blow had done it.

Mr.Wythan's watch and purse were untouched; and a second look at the swollen blind peepers led Gower to surmise that they were, in the calculation of the striker, his own.
He walked next day to the Royal Sovereign inn.

There he came upon the earl driving his phaeton.

Fleetwood jumped down, and Gower told of the mysterious incident, as the chief thing he had to tell, not rendering it so mysterious in his narrative style.