Still he was tolerably prudent and did not task nature too unreasonably.

His exercises were duly moderated, so as not to irritate anew his injuries.

Forrester was a rigid disciplinarian, and it was only on the fifth day after his arrival, and after repeated entreaties of his patient, in all of which he showed himself sufficiently _impatient_, that the honest woodman permitted him to descend to the dinner-table of the inn, in compliance with the clamorous warning of the huge bell which stood at the entrance.
The company at the dinner-table was somewhat less numerous than that assembled in the great hall at the trial of the pedler.

Many of the persons then present were not residents, but visiters in the village from the neighboring country.

They had congregated there, as was usually the case, on each Saturday of the week, with the view not less to the procuring of their necessaries, than the enjoyment of good company.
Having attended in the first place to the ostensible objects of their visit, the village tavern, in the usual phrase, "brought them up;" and in social, yet wild carousal, they commonly spent the residue of the day.