yond the twelvemonths I agreed to rent it. I believe I shall not live there any more.
"Oh, indeed! you're tired of being banished from the world, are you?" he said. "But, if you be coming to plead off paying for a place, you won't occupy, your journey is useless—I never relent in exacting my due, from any one."
"I'm coming to plead off nothing about it!" I exclaimed, considerably irritated. "Should you wish it, I'll settle with you now," and I drew my notebook from my pocket.
"No, no," he replied coolly, "you'll leave sufficient behind, to cover your debts, if you fail to return. . .I'm not in such a hurry—sit down and take your dinner with us—a guest that is safe from repeating his visit, can generally be made welcome—Catherine! bring the things in—where are you?"
Catherine re-appeared, bearing a tray of knives and forks.
