In a short time a supper consisting of fish, a steak, and tea was placed before him.

Ralph fell to vigorously, and the care that had been bestowed by Mr.Penfold in securing a bedroom and ordering supper for him greatly raised him in the boy's estimation; and he looked forward with warmer anticipations than he had hitherto done to his visit to him.

As goon as he had finished he went off to bed, and in a few minutes was sound asleep.

At half-past six he was called, and after a hearty breakfast took his seat on the outside of the Weymouth coach.
Sitting beside him were four sailors, belonging, as he soon learned, to a privateer lying at Weymouth.

They had had a long trip, and had been some months at sea; and as their ship was to lie for a fortnight at Weymouth while some repairs were being done to her, they had obtained a week's leave and had ran up to London for a spree.