We ordered him peremptorily to sit down with us.
Here endeth the first lesson.

It was a mistake.
As long as we had that fellow after that, he was always hungry; he was always thirsty.

He came early; he stayed late; he could not pass a restaurant; he looked with a lecherous eye upon every wine shop.
Suggestions to stop, excuses to eat and to drink, were forever on his lips.

We tried all we could to fill him so full that he would have no room to spare for a fortnight, but it was a failure.

He did not hold enough to smother the cravings of his superhuman appetite.
He had another "discrepancy" about him.