Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice! I beg a thousand pardons.

I have fallen insensibly into my Sunday-school style.

Most inappropriate in such a record as this.

Let me try to be worldly--let me say that trifles, in this case as in many others, led to terrible results.

Merely premising that the polite stranger was Mr.
Luker, of Lambeth, we will now follow Mr.Godfrey home to his residence at Kilburn.
He found waiting for him, in the hall, a poorly clad but delicate and interesting-looking little boy.