to the end! Nobody could write, think, or speak on any

recollections, and an abundance of small jokes, which struck

Oliver as being the drollest things he had ever heard, and caused

him to laugh proportionately; to the evident satisfaction of the

doctor, who laughed immoderately at himself, and made Harry laugh

almost as heartily, by the very force of sympathy. So, they were

as pleasant a party as, under the circumstances, they could well

have been; and it was late before they retired, with light and

thankful hearts, to take that rest of which, after the doubt and

Great!（8142）