He wished them well.

He was glad to see them, and sorry he had not ale enough on the premises to regale every man of them.

Clubs were great institutions.

One fist was stronger than a thousand fingers--"as my friend here said just now." Hereat the eyelids of Cornelia shed another queenly smile on the happy originator of the remark.
Squire Pole then descended to business.

He named the amount of his donation.