You see, bad habits stick to a man; but I have done with them now.

When I get back to England I shall buy a snug public house at Dover, and with that and my pension I shall be in clover for the rest of my life." It was not until the voyage home that Jack, after obtaining a promise of secrecy, related to the earl the liberty which had been taken with his name.

It was just a freak after Peterborough's heart, and he was immensely amused.
"The rascals!" he said, "they deserved hanging, every one of them; but the story is a capital one, and I should like to have been there myself to have seen the fright of the prior and his assistants.

They richly deserved what befell them and more for betraying sanctuary.

If it had been a scoundrel who had cut his wife's throat, and stabbed half a dozen men, they would have refused to give him up to the civil power, and would have stood on the rights of sanctuary of the Church.