"You counsel admirably; and one of these days, if you are not hung in the mean while, will, I venture to auger, be a great logician." The next morning was clear and frosty; but the day after was, to use Tomlinson's simile, "as dark as if all the negroes of Africa had been stewed down into air." "You might have cut the fog with a knife," as the proverb says.

Paul and Augustus could not even see how significantly each looked at the other.
It was a remarkable trait of the daring temperament of the former, that, young as he was, it was fixed that he should lead the attempt.

At the hour, then, for chapel the prisoners passed as usual through the door.
When it came to Paul's turn he drew himself by his hands to the pipe, and then creeping along its sinuous course, gained the wall before he had even fetched his breath.

Rather more clumsily, Augustus followed his friend's example.

Once his foot slipped, and he was all but over.
He extended his hands involuntarily, and caught Paul by the leg.