"Tom Peckett's accommodations may be good enough for pedlers and travelling agents, but they are not fit for gentlemen, especially one of my nephew's friends.

You must stay with us, sir, as long as you are in this neighborhood.

I insist upon it." Junius was very much astonished at his aunt's speech and manner.

The old lady was not at all inhospitable; so far was it otherwise the case, that, rather than deprive an objectionable visitor of the shelter of her roof, she would go from under it herself; but he had never known her to "gush" in this manner upon a stranger.

He now felt at liberty, however, to obey his own impulses, and urged Mr Croft to stay with them.
"You are very kind, indeed," said Lawrence, "and I shall be glad to defer for the present my return to my 'hotel.' This will give me the additional pleasure of renewing my acquaintance with Mrs Null." "What!" exclaimed Mrs Keswick, "do you know her, too?
And to think of you stopping at Peckett's! Your home, sir, while you stay in these parts, is here." Before the three reached the house, Mrs Keswick had inquired how long Mr Croft had known her niece; and had discovered, much to her disappointment, that he had never met Mr Null.