At sight of him Miss Dorothy flung herself on her knees with the most moving adjurations, calling him father, assuring him she was wholly cured and entirely repentant of her disobedience, and entreating forgiveness; and I soon saw that she need fear no great severity from Mr.
Greensleeves, who showed himself extraordinarily fond, loud, greedy of caresses and prodigal of tears.
To give myself a countenance, as well as to have all ready for the road when I should find occasion, I turned to quit scores with Bellamy's two postillions.

They had not the least claim on me, but one of which they were quite ignorant--that I was a fugitive.

It is the worst feature of that false position that every gratuity becomes a case of conscience.
You must not leave behind you any one discontented nor any one grateful.
But the whole business had been such a 'hurrah-boys' from the beginning, and had gone off in the fifth act so like a melodrama, in explosions, reconciliations, and the rape of a post-horse, that it was plainly impossible to keep it covered.

It was plain it would have to be talked over in all the inn-kitchens for thirty miles about, and likely for six months to come.

It only remained for me, therefore, to settle on that gratuity which should be least conspicuous--so large that nobody could grumble, so small that nobody would be tempted to boast.