Come, make up your mind to let him go with me, and I'll send him home as stout as I am." At the bare idea of Charlie's being brought to such a state of obesity, Kinch, who, during the interview, had been in the back part of the room, making all manner of faces, was obliged to leave the apartment, to prevent a serious explosion of laughter, and after their visitor had departed he was found rolling about the floor in a tempest of mirth.
After considerable conversation relative to the project, Mrs.Bird took her leave, promising to call soon again, and advising Mrs.Ellis to accept her offer.

Mrs.Ellis consulted Dr.Burdett, who pronounced it a most fortunate circumstance, and said the boy could not be in better hands; and as Charlie appeared nothing loth, it was decided he should go to Warmouth, to the great grief of Kinch, who thought it a most unheard-of proceeding, and he regarded Mrs.Bird thenceforth as his personal enemy, and a wilful disturber of his peace..