I think I can advise you to just such a kind of place as you seem to want." "And how do you know that I have got wherewithal to pay the reckoning ?" I demanded.

"Brother," said Mr.Petulengro, "I was just now looking in your face, which exhibited the very look of a person conscious of the possession of property; there was nothing hungry or sneaking in it.

Pay the reckoning, brother." And when we were once more upon the road Mr.Petulengro began to talk of the place which he conceived would serve me as a retreat under present circumstances.

"I tell you frankly, brother, that it is a queer kind of place, and I am not very fond of pitching my tent in it, it is so surprisingly dreary.

It is a deep dingle in the midst of a large field, on an estate about which there has been a lawsuit for some years past.