Let us start now.

We must not go together.

I will take the wherry while you go by land." "First," said I, "put on this cast-off suit of mine, which I thought to give away to a beggar man, once; but thank Heaven I did not." "You give it to a beggar now," said he, "and I thank you, Humphrey, for a gift I never expected to take from you." Then we hid the dead carter's clothes in the river; and, not long after, a skiff put out from shore with a big 'prentice lad in it, who rowed lazily Bridgewards.
I stood watching him, when, suddenly, the outer door opened, and a company of the watch trooped in.
"Good e'en to you, Master Dexter," said the leader of them, whose head I had once chanced to break, and who had been monstrous civil to me ever since.

"We must search this house, by your leave." "What for ?" I asked.
"For villains and lurchers," said he, "and if you keep any such in hiding, you had best speak and save trouble." "Wert thou not on a good service," said I, blustering, "I would knock some of your heads together for supposing I harboured villains.

The only villains in this place are some of you, sirs.