Mary Cullen, right ye are; 'twas quality ye had with ye, even if 'twas but for little while." "And them gone to prison, him on trial for his life! I saw un ride out this very yesterday, fast as though the devil was behind un, and a finer body of a man never did I look at in my life.

What pity 'tis, what pity 'tis!" "Well," said the apprentice, with a certain superiority in his air.

"I dare wait no longer.

My master said the gentleman was to have the clothes this very afternoon.

So if to prison he be gone, to prison must I go too." Upon which he set off doggedly, and so removed one of the main causes for the assemblage at the curb.
The apprentice was hungry and weary enough before he reached the somber portals, yet his insistence won past gate-keeper and turnkey, one after another, till at length he reached the jailer who adjudged himself fit to pass upon the stolid demand that the messenger be admitted with the parcel for John Law, Esquire, late of Bradwell Street, marked urgent, and collect fifty sovereigns.