'I tell you, sir, I took you wholly! I _smoked_ you! I believe you and I, sir, if we had a chance to talk, would find we had a good many opinions in common.

Here is the "Blue Bell," a very comfortable place.

They draw good ale, sir.

Would you be so condescending as to share a pot with me ?' There was something so ambiguous and secret in the little man's perpetual signalling, that I confess my curiosity was much aroused.

Blaming myself, even as I did so, for the indiscretion, I embraced his proposal, and we were soon face to face over a tankard of mulled ale.