"He has heard of your wonderful escapes, and wishes to see what you're like.
There's a feather in your cap! No house-breaker was ever so highly honoured before." "And have my escapes really made so much noise as to reach the ear of royalty ?" mused Jack.

"I have done nothing--nothing to what I _could_ do--to what I _will_ do!" "You've done quite enough," rejoined Austin; "more than you'll ever do again." "And then to be taken thus, in these disgraceful bonds!" continued Jack, "to be held up as a sight for ever!" "Why, how else would you be taken ?" exclaimed the jailer, with a coarse laugh.

"It's very well Mr.Wild allowed you to have your fine clothes again, or you might have been taken in a still more disgraceful garb.
For my part, I think those shackles extremely becoming.

But, here they are." Voices being heard at the door, Austin flew to open it, and admitted Mr.
Pitt, the governor, a tall pompous personage, who, in his turn, ushered in four other individuals.

The first of these, whom he addressed as Mr.
Gay, was a stout, good-looking, good-humoured man, about thirty-six, with a dark complexion, an oval face, fine black eyes, full of fire and sensibility, and twinkling with roguish humour--an expression fully borne out by the mouth, which had a very shrewd and sarcastic curl.