But order back all others.' "'That is perfectly fair and straightforward, my lord,' the constable answered, falling naturally into abeyance to orders.

'I am sure that all of us wishes your lordship kindly out of this rum scrape.

But my duty is my duty.' "With a few more words we all set forth, six in number, and no more; for the constable said that the miller's men, who had first found the late Lord Castlewood, were witnesses enough for him.

And Jacob Rigg, whose legs were far apart (as he said) from trenching celery, took us through the kitchen-garden, and out at a gap, which saved every body knowing.
"Then we passed through a copse or two, and across a meadow, and then along the turnpike-road, as far as now I can remember.

And along that we went to a stile on the right, without any house for a long way off.