I have already been marketing, as you see." "Then we are at a standstill." "Yes, but we move on again in three minutes." "What have you bought ?" "Your breakfast.

See--" and the Captain spread on the cabin table an enormous sausage, two loaves of bread and a bottle of red wine.
"That is good, for I warn you I am hungry." "But first of all you must dress." "Am I not already dressed ?" "Let me point out that the uniform of a private soldier in his Majesty's Coldstream Guards differs in so many respects from the native costume of these parts that it can hardly fail to excite remark.

Listen: I have here two suits of clothes, in which we must travel for the next day or two; I as a private gentleman and you as my lackey." "I begin to see that this way back to Harwich has its difficulties as well as the other," sighed Tristram while they changed their suits.
This reflection threw him into a melancholy which lasted throughout the day, insomuch that he hardly found heart to go on deck, but sat on his bench in the cabin, feeding his heart on the prospect of Sophia's joy at his return and listening to his father, who sat and whistled on the cabin hatch, to the thuds of the towing-horse's hoofs, and to the monotonous "huy!" and "vull!" of the boatman whenever their barge encountered another and one of the twain slackened rope to allow passage.
Occasionally they were hailed from the bank by travellers who desired to journey downstream; but the invariable answer was that this barge had been hired by a nobleman who wished to travel without company and at his leisure.

As Tristram, however, knew nothing of the Dutch language, he imagined these to be but kindly salutations of the inhabitants designed to enliven a voyage which (as he judged) must be inexpressibly tedious to anyone who made it with any other purpose than that of being restored to Sophia's embrace.
Towards sunset he went on deck, and observed his father steadily gazing at the left bank of the canal, parallel to which, and at a distance of five hundred yards or less, there ran an embankment with a highroad along the top of it.

Following the direction of Captain Salt's eyes, he descried a party of four horsemen about half a mile behind them advancing down this road at a steady trot.