I would have given up my work with Bullock and Freeman.

I'd have gone in, tooth and nail, for that drink! I sat up all one night trying to find a name for it; but couldn't hit on the right one.

A name is just as important as the stuff itself that you want to sell.

Next morning--it was Sunday--I went round to my friend's lodgings, and'-- he slapped his thigh--'I'm blest if the chap hadn't cut his throat!' 'Why ?' 'Betting and forgery.

He would have been arrested next day.