You are afraid of being ushered into company; and people who have passed their lives like you have a wonderful antipathy to strange faces; but this is bedtime with our family, so that we can defer your introduction to them till to-morrow.

We may go to our chamber without being seen by any but servants." I had not been aware of this circumstance.

My reluctance flowed from a different cause, but, now that the inconveniences of ceremony were mentioned, they appeared to me of considerable weight.

I was well pleased that they should thus be avoided, and consented to go along with him.
We passed several streets and turned several corners.

At last we turned into a kind of court which seemed to be chiefly occupied by stables.