What wouldst have ?" The boy rose, and stood at graceful ease, but with an aspect of concern in his face.

He said-- "Of a surety thou must remember me, my lord.

I am thy whipping-boy." "My WHIPPING-boy ?" "The same, your Grace.

I am Humphrey--Humphrey Marlow." Tom perceived that here was someone whom his keepers ought to have posted him about.

The situation was delicate.