Ordinarily, I 'retire,' as thou termest it, at ten, and rise with the sun.

In summer I am abroad soon after three, and mend that if thou canst, Dick.

To-night I shall seek my couch about midnight, and yet I'll warrant me I shall be the first stirring in the Abbey; and, in any case, I shall be in the saddle before thee." "It may be," replied Richard; "but it was to preserve you from extravagance to-night that I volunteered advice, which, from my knowledge of your character, I might as well have withheld.

But let me caution you on another point.

Dance with Dame Tetlow, or any other dame you please--dance with the fair Isole de Heton, if you can prevail upon her to descend from her frame and give you her hand; but I object--most decidedly object--to your dancing with Alizon Device." "Why so ?" cried Nicholas; "why should I not dance with whom I please?
And what right hast thou to forbid me Alizon?
Troth, lad, art thou so ignorant of human nature as not to know that forbidden fruit is the sweetest.