20/25 Do 'e come in, and sit down, there's a dear. Ah, I mind the time when you was like a dart, Squire!" "Well, and now I am like a cannon-ball," said the Admiral, who understood and liked this unflattering talk; "only I don't travel quite so fast as that. I scarcely get time to see any old friends. But I came to look out for a young friend now, the gentleman you make so comfortable upstairs. Don't I wish I was a young man without incumbrance, to come and lodge with such a wonderful landlady!" "Ah, if there was more of your sort, sir, there'd be a deal less trouble in the world, there would. |