"It's very well you haven't crushed the poor little thing to death with this confounded clothes'-bag.

But some people have no consideration." "That child may be the means of saving me," muttered the stranger, as if struck by a new idea: "I shall gain time by the expedient.

Do you live here ?" "Not exactly," answered the carpenter.
"No matter.

The door is open, so it is needless to ask leave to enter.
Ha!" exclaimed the stranger, as shouts and other vociferations resounded at no great distance along the thoroughfare, "not a moment is to be lost.

Give me that precious charge," he added, snatching the bundle from Wood.