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"And so you are bound for London, sir; pray, are you in a hurry to

get there?"

"Not particularly," Barnabas rejoined

"Then there you have the advantage of me, for I am, sir But here I

sit, a reat

hurry, and have a mind to travel in company with a martyr, just as

soon as I aether

What d' ye say?"

"With pleasure!" answered Barnabas

"Why then, sir, pray sit down I blush to offer you the stocks, but

the grass is devilish dewy and damp, and there's deuce a chair to be

had--which is only natural, of course; but pray sit so he is, produces the key, and lets

, and, for that

your pardons, gentle

himself by the starboard whisker, "but orders is orders, and I was

to tell you, Master Horatio, sir, as there was firstly a round o'