'You must speak plainer if I am to understand you.' 'Can we trust him ?' he asked, jerking his head in the direction of Reuben.
'As myself.' 'How very charming!' said he, with something between a smile and a sneer.

'David and Jonathan--or, to be more classical and less scriptural, Damon and Pythias--eh ?' These papers, then, are from the faithful abroad, the exiles in Holland, ye understand, who are thinking of making a move and of coming over to see King James in his own country with their swords strapped on their thighs.

The letters are to those from whom they expect sympathy, and notify when and where they will make a landing.

Now, my dear lad, you will perceive that instead of my being in your power, you are so completely in mine that it needs but a word from me to destroy your whole family.

Decimus Saxon is staunch, though, and that word shall never be spoken.' 'If all this be true,' said I, 'and if your mission is indeed as you have said, why did you even now propose to make for France ?' 'Aptly asked, and yet the answer is clear enough,' he replied; 'sweet and ingenuous as are your faces, I could not read upon them that ye would prove to be Whigs and friends of the good old cause.