Besides all this, I have many a time had to help him up to his room, and put him to bed, when the waiters from the restaurants brought him home in a carriage, so drunk that he could scarcely say a word." "Ha!" exclaimed Joseph enthusiastically, "this fellow's service must be mighty profitable." "That was according to circumstances.

When he was at play, he was lavish with his money; but he always lost: and, when he was drunk, he had a quick temper, and didn't spare the blows.

I must do him the justice to say, though, that his cigars were splendid.

But he was a ruffian; while the viscount here is a true child of wisdom.

He is severe upon our faults, it is true; but he is never harsh nor brutal to his servants.
Then he is uniformly generous; which in the long run pays us best.