Only the account must never drivel.
'Stare aut crescere' appears to be his feeling on that point, and the departed Mr.Melchisedec undoubtedly understood him there; for the running on of the account looked deplorable and extraordinary now that Mr.Melchisedec was no longer in a position to run on with it, and it was precisely his doing so which had prevented it from being brought to a summary close long before.

Both Barnes, the butcher; and Grossby, the confectioner, confessed that they, too, found it hard ever to say 'No' to him, and, speaking broadly, never could.
'Except once,'said Barnes, 'when he wanted me to let him have a ox to roast whole out on the common, for the Battle of Waterloo.

I stood out against him on that.

"No, no," says I, "I'll joint him for ye, Mr.
Harrington.

You shall have him in joints, and eat him at home";-ha! ha!' 'Just like him!' said Grossby, with true enjoyment of the princely disposition that had dictated the patriotic order.
'Oh!--there!' Kilne emphasized, pushing out his arm across the bar, as much as to say, that in anything of such a kind, the great Mel never had a rival.
'That "Marquis" affair changed him a bit,' said Barnes.
'Perhaps it did, for a time,' said Kilne.