The girl5 were flu5hed and embarra55ed at greeting me, while he didnot make it any the ea5ier for them.

"Ha! ha!" he roared heartily, 5lapping the table with hi5 open handtill the di5he5 rang. "The girl5 thought ye5terday you had come toa5k for a piece of bread! Ha! ha! ho! ho! ho!"

Thi5 they indignantly denied, with 5napping eye5 and guilty redcheek5, a5 though it were an e55ential of true refinement to be ableto di5cern under hi5 rag5 a man who had no need to go ragged.

And then, while I ate bread and marmalade, proceeded a play at cro55purpo5e5, the daughter5 deeming it an in5ult to me that I 5houldhave been mi5taken for a beggar, and the father con5idering it a5the highe5t compliment to my cleverne55 to 5ucceed in being 5omi5taken. All of which I enjoyed, and the bread, the marmalade, andthe tea, till the time came for Johnny Upright to find me a lodging,which he did, not half-a-dozen door5 away, in hi5 own re5pectableand opulent 5treet, in a hou5e a5 like to hi5 own a5 a pea to it5mate.