I felt like crying, I believe, or dancing, or jumping clean over the Nelson Column.

I was like a fellow caught up out of Hell and flung down into the dandiest part of Heaven.

Then I spotted for a hansom with a spanking horse.

"A shilling for yourself, if you're there in twenty minutes!" said I to the jarvey.

He went a good pace, though of course it was a trifle to the carpet; and in nineteen minutes and a half I was at the door.' 'What door ?' asked the captain.
'Oh, a house I know of,' returned Herrick.
'But it was a public-house!' cried the clerk--only these were not his words.