'Two tall footmen and a pair of crabtree cudgels, I suggest.' 'The Lord deliver me from the wisdom of laymen!' cried Romaine.

'Put myself in the wrong at the beginning of a lawsuit?
No, indeed! There was but one thing to do, and I did it, and burned my last cartridge in the doing of it.

I stunned him.

And it gave us three hours, by which we should make haste to profit; for if there is one thing sure, it is that he will be up to time again to-morrow in the morning.' 'Well,' said I, 'I own myself an idiot.

Well do they say, _an old soldier_, _an old innocent_! For I guessed nothing of all this.' 'And, guessing it, have you the same objections to leave England ?' he inquired.
'The same,' said I.
'It is indispensable,' he objected.
'And it cannot be,' I replied.