"Your papa will run down to the cellar for it in a minute." "I'll see him hanged first!" cried Mr.Hayes, quite frightened.
"Oh, fie, now, you unnatural father!" said the Doctor.
The very name of father used to put Mr.Hayes in a fury.

"I'm not his father, thank Heaven!" said he.
"No, nor nobody else's," said Tom.
Mr.Hayes only muttered "Base-born brat!" "His father was a gentleman,--that's more than you ever were!" screamed Mrs.Hayes.

"His father was a man of spirit; no cowardly sneak of a carpenter, Mr Hayes! Tom has noble blood in his veins, for all he has a tailor's appearance; and if his mother had had her right, she would be now in a coach-and-six." "I wish I could find my father," said Tom; "for I think Polly Briggs and I would look mighty well in a coach-and-six." Tom fancied that if his father was a count at the time of his birth, he must be a prince now; and, indeed, went among his companions by the latter august title.
"Ay, Tom, that you would," cried his mother, looking at him fondly.
"With a sword by my side, and a hat and feather there's never a lord at St.James's would cut a finer figure." After a little more of this talk, in which Mrs.Hayes let the company know her high opinion of her son--who, as usual, took care to show his extreme contempt for his stepfather--the latter retired to his occupations; the lodger, Mrs.Springatt, who had never said a word all this time, retired to her apartment on the second floor; and, pulling out their pipes and tobacco, the old gentleman and the young one solaced themselves with half-an-hour's more talk and smoking; while the thrifty Mrs.Hayes, opposite to them, was busy with her books.
"What's in the confessions ?" said Mr.Billings to Doctor Wood.

"There were six of 'em besides Mac: two for sheep, four housebreakers; but nothing of consequence, I fancy." "There's the paper," said Wood, archly.

"Read for yourself, Tom." Mr.Tom looked at the same time very fierce and very foolish; for, though he could drink, swear, and fight as well as any lad of his inches in England, reading was not among his accomplishments.