prison.

"Now people know you're the friend of drunken and disorderly persons,
you'll never have a night's sleep in your bed. Not that it would
matter what fell upon you, if it wasn't your poor wife who suffered.
Of course all the business will be in the newspapers, and your name
with it. I shouldn't wonder, too, if they give your picture as they
do the other folks of the Old Bailey. A pretty thing that, to go
down to your children. I'm sure it will be enough to make them
change their name. No, I shall not go to sleep; it's all very well
for you to say, go to sleep, after such a disturbance. But I shall
not go to sleep, Mr. Caudle; certainly not."


"Her will, I have no doubt," says Caudle, "was strong; but nature was
stronger, and she did sleep; this night inflicting upon me a
remarkably short lecture."



LECTURE V--MR. CAUDLE HAS REMAINED DOWNSTAIRS TILL PAST ONE, WITH A
FRIEND



"Pretty time of night to come to bed, Mr. Caudle. Ugh! As cold,
too, as any ice. Enough to give any woman her death, I'm sure.
What!

"I SHOULDN'T HAVE LOCKED UP THE COALS?