By--I have several tremendous imprecations at my tongue's end, but they shall not out.

It is a sinful propensity, and must be controlled.
In a word, then, you let him escape, Dick ?" "If you were so anxious to stay him, I wonder you came not with me," replied Richard; "but you now hold very different language from what you used when I quitted the hall." "Ah, true--right--Dick," replied Nicholas; "my sentiments have undergone a wonderful change since then.

I now regret having stopped you.

By my troth! if I meet that confounded monk again, he shall give a good account of himself, I promise him.

But what said he to you, Dick?
Make an end of your story." "I have not begun it yet," replied Richard.