Walked all the way from Moncton.

Bless the boy, how tired and hungry you must be! Sit down, young Philip Mornington, and get your dinner with old Philip Mornington; and we will talk over these matters by and by.' "Gladly I accepted the dear old gentleman's hearty invitation.

I had not tasted food since early dawn, and was so outrageously hungry and eat with such a right good will, that he often stopped and laughed heartily at my voracity.
"'Well done, Philip! Don't be ashamed: hold in your plate for another slice of beef.

Thirty miles of hard walking at this season of the year, may well give a boy of sixteen, strong and healthy like you, a good appetite.' "After the cloth was drawn, and the old gentleman had refreshed me with a couple of glasses of excellent wine, obedient to his request I related to him my adventure with Theophilus Moncton in the park, and its unfortunate results.
"Instead of blaming me, the whole affair seemed greatly to amuse the hearty old man.

He fell back in his chair, and chuckled and laughed until he declared that his sides ached.
"'And was it for punishing that arrogant puppy as he deserved, that Sir Alexander cast you, my fine fellow, from his favour ?' "'He might have forgiven that.