'I am afraid they don't keep many animals of either kind on board ship, Smike, and even when they have horses, that they are not very particular about rubbing them down; still you can learn to do something else, you know.

Where there's a will, there's a way.' 'And I am very willing,' said Smike, brightening up again.
'God knows you are,' rejoined Nicholas; 'and if you fail, it shall go hard but I'll do enough for us both.' 'Do we go all the way today ?' asked Smike, after a short silence.
'That would be too severe a trial, even for your willing legs,' said Nicholas, with a good-humoured smile.

'No.

Godalming is some thirty and odd miles from London--as I found from a map I borrowed--and I purpose to rest there.

We must push on again tomorrow, for we are not rich enough to loiter.