After the exchange of a few more compliments, they bade the

company good-night, and went out; the girl gathering up the pots

and glasses as they did so, and lounging out to the door, with

her hands full, to see the party start.

The horse, whose health had been drunk in his absence, was

standing outside: ready harnessed to the cart. Oliver and Sikes

got in without any further ceremony; and the man to whom he

belonged, having lingered for a minute or two 'to bear him up,'