Come, Mr.Tudor, you owe me a great deal of money, and you are the most unpunctual young man I know; but yet I don't like to see you distressed.

I'll tell you what, now--do you hand over your watch to me, just as a temporary loan--you can't want it here, you know; and I'll come down and bail you out to-morrow.' Charley declined dealing on these terms; and then Mr.M'Ruen at last went away, leaving Charley to his fate, and lamenting quite pathetically that he was such an unpunctual young man, so very unpunctual that it was impossible to do anything to assist him.
Charley, however, manfully resisted the second attack upon his devoted watch.
'That's very blue, very blue indeed,' said the master of the house, as Mr.M'Ruen took his departure--'ha'n't you got no huncles nor hants, nor nothin' of that sort ?' Charley declared that he had lots of uncles and aunts, grandfathers and grandmothers, and a perfect wealth of cousins, and that he would send for some of the leading members of his family to-morrow.

Satisfied with this, the man supplied him with bread and cheese, gin and water, and plenty of tobacco; and, fortified with these comforts, Charley betook himself at last very lugubriously, to a filthy, uninviting bed., He had, we have seen, sent for his brushes, and hence came escape; but in a manner that he had little recked of, and of which, had he been asked, he would as little have approved.

Mrs.
Richards, his landlady, was not slow in learning from the messenger how it came to pass that Charley wanted the articles of his toilet so suddenly demanded.

'Why, you see, he's just been quodded,' said the boy.
Mrs.Richards was quite enough up to the world, and had dealt with young men long enough, to know what this meant; nor indeed was she much surprised.