Determined, however, to ascertain, if possible, whether there had been any cause for it, he called out to the man whose motions had occasioned the alarm, and who stood still, though he seemed to keep out of reach of the light.

"Come, step forward, my friend, and do not play at bo peep; knowest thou not, that they who walk like phantoms in the dark are apt to encounter the conjuration of a quarterstaff?
Step forward, I say, and show us thy shapes, man." "Why, so I can, Master Glover," said one of the deepest voices that ever answered question.

"I can show my shapes well enough, only I wish they could bear the light something better." "Body of me," exclaimed Simon, "I should know that voice! And is it thou, in thy bodily person, Harry Gow?
Nay, beshrew me if thou passest this door with dry lips.

What, man, curfew has not rung yet, and if it had, it were no reason why it should part father and son.

Come in, man; Dorothy shall get us something to eat, and we will jingle a can ere thou leave us.