You can get a full dress made at Lisbon.

Not that you will be wanting to wear that much, for we have come out for rough work; still, when we ride triumphantly into any town we have taken, it is as well to make a good impression upon the Spanish donnas.

And, say what they will, fine feathers go a long way toward making fine birds.

Do you write a good hand ?" "I think I write a pretty fair one, sir." "That is good.

I write a crabbed stick myself, and there's nothing I hate more than writing; and as for these young gentlemen, I don't think they will be of much use for that sort of thing.