A Set of Rogues

t of a fine lady; doubtful p

there, having a snug parlour to ourselves, and being seated about a fine cheese with ea

ing. "We desire nothing better than to serve your honour faithfully in all

, "who ever kept a treaty he was minded to break? Men are honest enough when

compunction now is that I can do

odwin, if Moll is to be her daughter, and you're fitter to play the part than I, for I

Mrs. Godwin is dead,"

s the thing mightily. But pray,

-day. You go with me to fetch

er and ought to pl

the ordinary course of things an

kinds," answers he. "We may very well

ieve he had counted upon coming to live like a lord in a fe

l," answer

or scrip," says Jack, proud

n. Consider this: it is not sufficient merely to obtain possession of the Godwin estate; it must be held against the jeal

t knows the language and can teach her a smat

y know something of m

lay Kit's fiddle

must be able to read and write the Moorish character and speak the tongue readily, answer aptly as to their

es Jack. "Your honour is no

ignificance over the many seams in his long face, "but we must go

ety if we're to be out of our fortune for a year. There

lies the Don, rising and knitting his brows together unpleasan

a word to say in answer to this last hit, which showed us pretty plainly that in reaching round with he

sed to the saddle and very raw with our journey), but the Don would not for prudence, and therefore, after changin

a loud guffaw of laughter from below, we go downstairs to the kitchen, which we could scarce enter for the crowd in the doorway. And here all darkness, save for a sheet hung at the further end, and lit from behind, on which a kind of phantasmagory play of Jack and the Giant was being acted by shadow characters cut

ad cut out her images and devised the show to entertain the servants in the kitchen, and that the guests above hearing their m

nfusion? We must be seen together no more than is necessary, until we are out of this country. I shall leave here in the morning, and you will meet me next at the Turk, in Gracious Street, to-morrow afternoon." Therewith he goes up to

y the gentry; then, pulling up a chair betwixt us, she asks us a dozen questions of a string as to where we have been, what we have done, etc., since we left her. G

ave you to know that I am your father, and wil

ask you where

ask questions, but do as they'r

questions. Is there noth

ecency. Take your feet off the hearth, and put 'em under your chair. Let me have no more of these galanty-shows

oney," cries she, springing up with the t

the chair, and out roll her sixpences

round to see we were alone. "You ha

passion. "If I am to ask no questions, how shall I know but we may