Twenty pounds! Consider of it, ma'am, for twenty minutes; give each pound a minute; that's a fair allowance.
I'll enjoy the air the while, which is very mild and pleasant in these parts.' With these words he groped his way to the door, carrying his chair with him.

Then seating himself, under a spreading honeysuckle, and stretching his legs across the threshold so that no person could pass in or out without his knowledge, he took from his pocket a pipe, flint, steel and tinder-box, and began to smoke.

It was a lovely evening, of that gentle kind, and at that time of year, when the twilight is most beautiful.
Pausing now and then to let his smoke curl slowly off, and to sniff the grateful fragrance of the flowers, he sat there at his ease--as though the cottage were his proper dwelling, and he had held undisputed possession of it all his life--waiting for the widow's answer and for Barnaby's return..