Your little chamber was to have been in corridor number four, number twelve of the left aisle.

But, sir, as perhaps you know, there be rules which are rules, and rules which are not so much--that is to say--rules, as you might put it, sir.

The main thing is that I produce your body on the day of the hearing, which cometh soon.

Meantime, since you seem a gentleman, and are in for no common felony, but charged, as I might say, with a light offense, why, sir, in such a case, I might say that a gentleman like yourself, if he cared to wear a bit of good clothes and wear it here in the parlor like, why, sir, I can see no harm in it.

And that's competent to prove, as the judge says." "Very well, then," said Law, "I'll e'en deck out with the gear I should have had to-night had I been free; though I fear my employment this evening will scarce be pleasing as that which I had planned.