In Mrs.Selvig's tap-room he found a remedy which made him insensible to moral lectures even the most reasonable and impressive.

There he stood every evening a quarter of an hour after working-hours, as regular as clockwork, and when the hands of the clock drew near to eight, he just as regularly set off homewards, a punctuality which, be it said in passing, had gained for him in the tap-room the title of _General with order_..