This Mr.Thomson seems to me a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded.

It would please me none the worse, if (with all his merits) he were soused in the North Sea, for the man, Mr.David, is a sore embarrassment.

But you are doubtless quite right to adhere to him; indubitably, he adhered to you.

It comes--we may say--he was your true companion; nor less paribus curis vestigia figit, for I dare say you would both take an orra thought upon the gallows.

Well, well, these days are fortunately, by; and I think (speaking humanly) that you are near the end of your troubles." As he thus moralised on my adventures, he looked upon me with so much humour and benignity that I could scarce contain my satisfaction.