I understand myself--_I'll_ tell you about it.

You saw what sort of place I lived in and slept in at the madhouse, didn't you ?" "I saw it, Jack--and I can never forget it." "Now just think of my having a room, to begin with.

And add, if you please, a fire--and a light--and a bed--and blankets and sheets and pillows--and clothes, splendid new clothes, for Me! And then ask yourself if any man could bear it, all pouring on him at once (not an hour after he had left Bedlam), without going clean out of his senses and screeching for joy?
No, no.

If I have a quality, it's profound common sense.

Down I went on my knees before her again! 'If you have any mercy on me, Mistress, let me have all this by a bit at a time.