What would you do--what should be done ?" "Beef--beef--beef! mere beef! How dull you are to-night! were you in yon gloomy and thick edifice (pointing to the prison which frowned in perspective before them), with irons on your hands, and with the prospect through its narrow-grated loopholes, of the gallows-tree, at every turning before you, it might be matter of wonder even to yourself that you should have needed any advice by which to avoid such a risk and prospect." "Look you, Guy--I stand in no greater danger than yourself of the prospect of which you speak.

The subject is, at best, an ugly one, and I do not care to hear it spoken of by you, above all other people.

If you want me to talk civilly with you, you must learn yourself to keep a civil tongue in your head.

I don't seek to quarrel with anybody, but I will not submit to be threatened with the penalties of the rogue by one who is a damned sight greater rogue than myself." "You call things by their plainest names, Wat, at least," said the other, with a tone moderated duly for the purpose of soothing down the bristles he had made to rise--"but you mistake me quite.

I meant no threat; I only sought to show you how much we were at the mercy of a single word from a wanton and head-strong youth.