If I call him by five o'clock,' said Varden, turning hurriedly to his wife, and he washes himself clean and changes his dress, he may get to the Tower Stairs, and away by the Gravesend tide-boat, before any search is made for him.

From there he can easily get on to Canterbury, where your cousin will give him work till this storm has blown over.

I am not sure that I do right in screening him from the punishment he deserves, but he has lived in this house, man and boy, for a dozen years, and I should be sorry if for this one day's work he made a miserable end.

Lock the front-door, Miggs, and show no light towards the street when you go upstairs.

Quick, Simon! Get to bed!' 'And do you suppose, sir,' retorted Mr Tappertit, with a thickness and slowness of speech which contrasted forcibly with the rapidity and earnestness of his kind-hearted master--'and do you suppose, sir, that I am base and mean enough to accept your servile proposition ?--Miscreant!' 'Whatever you please, Sim, but get to bed.