Content
They thought to tire me out, but they could not do it.
But Mr Harford was very decent and never got into a wax.
The scene was Mr. Cruncher's private lodging in Hanging-sword-alley, Whitefriars: the time, half-past seven of the clock on a windy March morning, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty. (Mr.
--_Remember only thy last things and thou shalt not sin for ever_--words taken, my dear little brothers in Christ, from the book of Ecclesiastes, seventh chapter, fortieth verse.




