One can do a good deal with half a sovereign a day--don't you think ?" "Not very much, if you're particular about your wine." "Wine doesn't matter.

Honest ale and Scotch whisky will serve well enough.

Understand me; I'm not going in for debauchery, and I'm not going to play the third-rate swell.

There's no enjoyment in making a beast of oneself, and none for me in strutting about the streets like an animated figure out of a tailor's window.

I want to know the taste of free life, human life.