A Set of Rogues

rts that we are a

d since we had not the heart to restore them to our innkeeper, so we had not the face to chide

he prospect of worse. When I thought of our breakfast that Moll had stolen, and how willingly we would all have eaten a dinner got by the same means, I had to acknowledge that certainly we were all thieves at heart; and this conclusion, together with si

had thought better of his offer and would abandon it. So there we hang about the best part of an hour, now thinking the Don would presently send for us, and then growing to despair of everything but to be left in the cold forgotten; but in the end comes Master Lan

r decision; but that was scarce necessary, for it needed no subtle observation to perceive that we would accept any conditions to get our share of that roast

" asks Jack. "Has a bit of crac

l, and became a most horrid, tearing cough, which she did so natural as to deceive us all and put us in great conce

her eyes upon another fit, "'tis surely a most ungrateful return

rm a bed and prepare a hot posset against Moll was tucked up in the blankets. "And," says he, turning to Moll, "you shall not rise till noon, my

r the table and fetches me a kick of the shin, looking all the while as pitiful and innocent as any painted picture. "Would it be well to fetc

nt she will be mended in a day or so, with proper care. 'Tis a kind of family complaint. I am taken that way at tim

Dawson, then at me, with anything but a pleasant look in his eyes as finding his dignity hurt, to be thus bustled by a mere child. Then his dark eyebrows unbendin

s lodging, but I doubt if you will ev

o employ in your honour's service, so that you show us this steward-fellow is a

ay. And now, as we have no matter to discuss, and must be afoo

ng she had no conscience to speak of, and would like nothing better than to take part in any piece of mischief. But against this I protested, seeing that it would be dangerous to our design to let her know so much (she having a woman's tongue in her head), and also of a bad tendency to make her, as it were, at the very beginning of her life, a knowing active party to what looked like

le easier this morning and could fancy a dish of black puddings. These delicacies her father carried to her, being charged by the Don to tell her that we should be gone for a couple of days, and that in our absence she might command whatever she felt was necessary to her complete recovery against our return.

to Gracious Street, and there leaving our nags at the Turk inn, we walked down to the Bridge stairs, and thence with a pair of oars to Greenwich. Here, after our tedious chilly voyage, we were not ill-pleased to see the inside of an inn

r of his acquaintance whom I have not yet seen. Now you are to mark these two men well, note all they say and their manner of s

Dawson; "but which of t

ur parts to-day you are to be John and Christopher Knight, two needy cousins of Lady Godwin, whose husband, Sir Richard Godwin, was lost at sea seven ye

g distance from the Don, holding our hats on our knees as humbly as may be. Then in comes a rude, dirty fellow with a patch over one eye and a most peculiar bearish gait, dressed in a tarred coat, with

t and shawl in a corner. "There's his excellency Don Sanchez, and here's Mr. Hopkins, the me

. Godwin, and very anxious fo

here business without more ado," says Evans; and with that he seats himself i

bell, and seats himself. Then after a few civilities while

Robert Evans the purpose of o

I should be glad to have the particulars from you, that I may

e give us a pipe of tobacco if we're to warp