"When he has been waiting for his sweetheart about a quarter of an hour I will call his name in a woman's voice, and at his first step towards the desert do you break his neck with the sand-bag.

We have plenty of time yet, for it must still be a good half hour before midnight." "So much the better," said the other.

"Our wine-jar is not nearly empty yet, and we paid the lazy landlord for it in advance, before he crept into bed." "You shall only drink two cups more," said the punier villain.

"For this time we have to do with a sturdy fellow, Setnam is not with us now to lend a hand in the work, and the dead meat must show no gaping thrusts or cuts.

My teeth are not like yours when you are fasting--even cooked food must not be too tough for them to chew it, now-a-days.