"Go along,--you KNOW it is!" and two-and-eightpence he had; and everybody applauded Tug, and hissed the cab-boy, and asked Tug for something to drink.

We heard the packet-bell ringing, and all run down the stairs to be in time.
I now thought our troubles would soon be over; mine were, very nearly so, in one sense at least: for after Mrs.Coxe and Jemimarann, and Tug, and the maid, and valet, and valuables had been handed across, it came to my turn.

I had often heard of people being taken up by a PLANK, but seldom of their being set down by one.

Just as I was going over, the vessel rode off a little, the board slipped, and down I soused into the water.

You might have heard Mrs.Coxe's shriek as far as Gravesend; it rung in my ears as I went down, all grieved at the thought of leaving her a disconsolate widder.