And neither John nor I had ever met any one of these characters, all so irresistibly alluring at our age.
I say OUR, because though I followed where he led, I always did it of my own will likewise.
The afternoon began to wane, while we, with our two companions, yet sat talking by the brook-side.

Mr.Charles had washed his face, and his travel-sore, blistered feet, and we had induced him, and the man he called Yates, to share our remnants of bread and cheese.
"Now," he said, starting up, "I am ready to do battle again, even with the Thane of Fife--who, to-night, is one Johnson, a fellow of six feet and twelve stone.

What is the hour, Mr.Halifax ?" "Mr.Halifax"-- (I felt pleased to hear him for the first time so entitled)--had, unfortunately, no watch among his worldly possessions, and candidly owned the fact.

But he made a near guess by calculating the position of his unfailing time-piece, the sun .-- It was four o'clock.
"Then I must go.

Will you not retract, young gentlemen?
Surely you would not lose such a rare treat as 'Macbeth,' with--I will not say my humble self--but with that divine Siddons.