I assure you that Sir William, so full as he is of wise maxims, never acted upon a wise maxim in his life, until he had lost everything, and it didn't matter whether he was wise or no.

You know what he was in his young days, of course ?' 'No, I don't,' said the invisible stranger.
'O, I thought everybody knew poor Sir William's history.

He was the star, as I may zay, of good company forty years ago.

I remember him in the height of his jinks, as I used to zee him when I was a very little boy, and think how great and wonderful he was.

I can seem to zee now the exact style of his clothes; white hat, white trousers, white silk handkerchief; and his jonnick face, as white as his clothes with keeping late hours.