He received it with an oath; upon which I instantly gave him a tract.

If I had presented a pistol at his head, this abandoned wretch could hardly have exhibited greater consternation.

He jumped up on his box, and, with profane exclamations of dismay, drove off furiously.

Quite useless, I am happy to say! I sowed the good seed, in spite of him, by throwing a second tract in at the window of the cab.
The servant who answered the door--not the person with the cap-ribbons, to my great relief, but the foot-man--informed me that the doctor had called, and was still shut up with Lady Verinder.

Mr.Bruff, the lawyer, had arrived a minute since and was waiting in the library.