Don't wait here out o' compliment to me,' said Sam, as the groom wheeled in the barrow, and prepared to shut the gate.

'Ease afore ceremony, old boy; I'll excuse you.' 'I'd knock your head off for half-a-crown,' said the surly groom, bolting one half of the gate.
'Couldn't afford to have it done on those terms,' rejoined Sam.

'It 'ud be worth a life's board wages at least, to you, and 'ud be cheap at that.

Make my compliments indoors.

Tell 'em not to vait dinner for me, and say they needn't mind puttin' any by, for it'll be cold afore I come in.' In reply to this, the groom waxing very wroth, muttered a desire to damage somebody's person; but disappeared without carrying it into execution, slamming the door angrily after him, and wholly unheeding Sam's affectionate request, that he would leave him a lock of his hair before he went.
Sam continued to sit on the large stone, meditating upon what was best to be done, and revolving in his mind a plan for knocking at all the doors within five miles of Bristol, taking them at a hundred and fifty or two hundred a day, and endeavouring to find Miss Arabella by that expedient, when accident all of a sudden threw in his way what he might have sat there for a twelvemonth and yet not found without it.
Into the lane where he sat, there opened three or four garden gates, belonging to as many houses, which though detached from each other, were only separated by their gardens.