But he could not conceive how these laws should be answered by violating every suggestion of reason, and every precept of humanity.
Captain Crowe did not examine the matter so philosophically.

He took it for granted that in the morning the two knights would come to action, and slept sound on that supposition.

But he rose before it was day, resolved to be somehow concerned in the fray; and understanding that the stranger had a companion, set him down immediately for his own antagonist.

So impatient was he to establish this secondary contest, that by daybreak he entered the chamber of Dawdle, to which he was directed by the waiter, and roused him with a hilloah, that might have been heard at the distance of half a league.

Dawdle, startled by this terrific sound, sprung out of bed, and stood upright on the floor, before he opened his eyes upon the object by which he had been so dreadfully alarmed.