In the second place, he considered whisky to be the most wholesome spirit in the world.

In the third place, he believed his late beloved mother to be the best woman in the world.

It may be worthy of note that, whenever he expressed this last opinion in Scotland, he invariably added that her maiden name was Macleod.
Well, we put up at a modest little inn near the harbor.

I was dead tired with the journey, and lay down on my bed to get some rest.

Mr.Dark, whom nothing ever fatigued, left me to take his toddy and pipe among the company in the taproom.
I don't know how long I had been asleep when I was roused by a shake on my shoulder.