"As if a chap liked me lived anywheres!" "Well," said Jack, taking my arm, and not desirous to prolong the discussion, "mind you turn up to-morrow, Billy." "No fears," cried Billy, with a grin, accompanying us for a step or two, walking on his hands.
"That's a most extraordinary lad," said the clergyman.
"There's a lot of good in him," responded Smith.
"And you are doing your best to bring it out," said the clergyman.
"Which way are you going ?" said he, when presently with no further adventure we had got through the court.
"To Drury Lane," said I.
"Ah, down this street.

That's my way too.

Will you just come into my house and have a bit of supper ?" Jack never liked accepting invitations, but there was something so friendly and simple-minded about this clergyman that it would almost have seemed rude to say no.
"This is quite a new part of the town to me," said he, as we walked along.

"I suppose you know it well ?" "Yes," said I, "we lived close here for some months." "I wished you lived here still," he said.

"I want workers of your sort in my new parish." He insisted on including _me_ in his compliments, not knowing how little I deserved them.
"My walk this evening," said he, "is really the first serious voyage of discovery I have made in my parish, and the result is not very encouraging.