If he came in at that door, I would say, 'How dare you, you hireling ruffian, to sully with your presence an apartment where my young friend and I are conversing together?
where two gentlemen, I say, are taking their wine after dinner?
How dare you, you degraded villain ?' I don't mean you, sir.

I--I--I beg your pardon." The Colonel was striding about the room in his loose garments, puffing his cigar fiercely anon, and then waving his yellow bandana; and it was by the arrival of Larkins, my clerk, that his apostrophe to Tom Jones was interrupted; he, Larkins, taking care not to show his amazement, having been schooled not to show or feel surprise at anything he might see or hear in our chambers.
"What is it, Larkins ?" said I.Larkins' other master had taken his leave some time before, having business which called him away, and leaving me with the honest Colonel, quite happy with his talk and cigar.
"It's Brett's man," says Larkins.
I confounded Brett's man, and told the boy to bid him call again.

Young Larkins came grinning back in a moment, and said: "Please, sir, he says his orders is not to go away without the money." "Confound him again," I cried.

"Tell him I have no money in the house.
He must come to-morrow." As I spoke, Clive was looking in wonder, and the Colonel's countenance assumed an appearance of the most dolorous sympathy.

Nevertheless, as with a great effort, he fell to talking about Tom Jones again, and continued: "No, sir, I have no words to express my indignation against such a fellow as Tom Jones.