I keep it for my own drinking," he added in a lower tone.
Mr.Wood having disposed of the brandy, and pronounced himself much better, hurried close to the fire-side, and informed his friend in a few words of the inhospitable treatment he had experienced from the gentlemen of the Mint; whereupon Mr.Pugh, who, as well as the carpenter, was a descendant of Cadwallader, waxed extremely wrath; gave utterance to a number of fierce-sounding imprecations in the Welsh tongue; and was just beginning to express the greatest anxiety to catch some of the rascals at the Trumpeter, when Mr.Wood cut him short by stating his intention of crossing the river as soon as possible in order to avoid the storm.
"A storm!" exclaimed the landlord.

"Gadzooks! I thought something was coming on; for when I looked at the weather-glass an hour ago, it had sunk lower than I ever remember it." "We shall have a durty night on it, to a sartinty, landlord," observed an old one-eyed sailor, who sat smoking his pipe by the fire-side.

"The glass never sinks in that way, d'ye see, without a hurricane follerin', I've knowed it often do so in the West Injees.

Moreover, a souple o' porpusses came up with the tide this mornin', and ha' bin flounderin' about i' the Thames abuv Lunnun Bridge all day long; and them say-monsters, you know, always proves sure fore runners of a gale." "Then the sooner I'm off the better," cried Wood; "what's to pay, David ?" "Don't affront me, Owen, by asking such a question," returned the landlord; "hadn't you better stop and finish the bottle ?" "Not a drop more," replied Wood.

"Enough's as good as a feast.