Ye might have taken me to where excisemen or others would have wanted to pry and peep, and so endangered my commission.

Better a voyage to France in an open boat than that.' 'I will take you to my father,' said I, after a few moments' thought.
'You can deliver your letter and make good your story to him.

If you are indeed a true man, you will meet with a warm welcome; but should you prove, as I shrewdly suspect, to be a rogue, you need expect no mercy.' 'Bless the youngster! he speaks like the Lord High Chancellor of England! What is it the old man says?
"He could not ope His mouth, but out there fell a trope." But it should be a threat, which is the ware in which you are fond of dealing.
"He could not let A minute pass without a threat." How's that, eh?
Waller himself could not have capped the couplet neater.' All this time Reuben had been swinging away at his oars, and we had made our way into Langston Bay, down the sheltered waters of which we were rapidly shooting.

Sitting in the sheets, I turned over in my mind all that this waif had said.

I had glanced over his shoulder at the addresses of some of the letters--Steadman of Basingstoke, Wintle of Alresford, Fortescue of Bognor, all well-known leaders of the Dissenters.