Then I Sat and Stared and Laughed, and Reluctantly Passed on Again.

"I sat and thought how my errand was to be most speedily carried out. I had no money to buy a horse. The bangles taken from the crypt would not stand against the value of the boniest palfrey that ambled between his legs." "And i sat and stared and laughed until the prick of conscience stirred me, and reluctant i passed on again".