It won't come to anything, and if you're not mixed up in it our pious friends will think you are one of them, and that'll pay.

Do you twig?
Good-night.

You _are_ a nice boy!" So saying these two worthies separated.
Gilks acted on his friend's advice, and contrived to be absent after chapel next morning, when it was proposed to present the petition to the doctor.

He managed to invent some excuse for his desertion which made it appear it was unavoidable.

Nevertheless it was a good deal complained of, because he had been the only representative of the schoolhouse who had promised to go with the others to the doctor.
However it was decided not to postpone the ceremony any further.