Hogan, can you find him quarters ?" Hogan replied that there was the room he had already been confined in, and that he could lie in it.

And deeming that there was nothing to be gained by waiting, he thereupon led the youth from the room and down the passage.

At the foot of the stairs the Irishman paused in the act of descending, and raised the taper aloft so that its light might fall full upon the face of his companion.
"Were I your father," said he grimly, "I would kick you from one end of Waltham to the other by way of teaching you filial piety! And were you not his son, I would this night read you a lesson you'd never live to practise.

I would set you to sleep a last long sleep in the kennels of Waltham streets.

But since you are--marvellous though it seem--his offspring, and since I love him and may not therefore hurt you, I must rest content with telling you that you are the vilest thing that breathes.