Unless you learn it, you know, you might just as well take to shoemaking;--just the same.

You haven't got into trouble, then; eh ?" "No, my lord, not particularly." "Not particularly! I know very well that young men do get into trouble when they get up to London.

If you want any--any advice, or that sort of thing, you may come to me; for I knew your father well.
Do you like shooting ?" "I never did shoot anything." "Well, perhaps better not.

To tell the truth, I'm not very fond of young men who take to shooting without having anything to shoot at.
By-the-by, now I think of it, I'll send your mother some game." It may, however, here be fair to mention that game very often came from Guestwick Manor to Mrs Eames.

"And look here, cold pheasant for breakfast is the best thing I know of.