"I shall leave them—they are paid for. This is the name, and this is the number."
"Now, stupid!"
This last exclamation arose from the fact that this boy, in going out, ran up against another who was coming in.
"Can't you see where you are going?" said the new arrival.
"What's that to you? I have a good mind to punch your head."
"Do it, and then come down our court, and see what a licking I'll give you."
"Will you? Why don't you? Only let me catch you, that's all."
They stood for some moments so closely together that their noses very nearly touched; and then, after mutual assertions of what they would do if they caught each other—although, in either case, to stretch out an arm would have been quite sufficient to have accomplished that object—they separated, and the last comer said to Tobias, in a tone of irritation, probably consequent upon the misunderstanding he had just had with the hosier's boy—
"You can tell Mr. Todd that the carriage will be ready at half-past seven precisely."
And then he went away, leaving Tobias in a state of great bewilderment as to what Sweeney Todd could possibly be about to do with such an amount of finery as that which was evidently coming home for him.