"I have been here two months, and will have no more of it." "But are you free to leave ?" I asked--for my curiosity was roused.
"Free!" said he: "I am here, that is enough.

If my tutor come after me, there will be two men who will never see Oxford again." I pitied his tutor, whoever he was, when he said that.
"But where are you going then ?" I asked.
"To-night I shall lie here.

The man of the place is my friend, and will shelter me, though I have nothing to pay him.

To-morrow I shall take the road." Here our supper came in: a fine big trout from the river, and a dish which mine host called mutton, but which I smelt to be venison.
It smote me to the heart to mark the struggle in my comrade's face to keep down the ravenous joy which for a moment hailed the coming in of these good things.

But the ecstasy lasted only a moment, and when I bade him fall to, he said indifferently he had no appetite and wanted nothing.
"But it was a bargain," said I.
So he took a small helping.