I worn't going to hang on.

Here's your health, Mr.Scott.Yours, Mr.---, I didn't just catch the gen'leman's name;' and without waiting for further information on the point, he finished his brandy-and-water.
'So it's all up with the New Friendships, is it ?' said Undy.
'Up and down, Mr.Scott; every dog has his day; these Mary Janes will be going the same way some of them days.

We're all mortal;' and with this moral comparison between the uncertainty of human life and the vicissitudes of the shares in which he trafficked, Mr.Manylodes proceeded to put some more sugar and brandy into his tumbler.
'True, true--we are all mortal--Manylodes and Mary Janes; old friendships and New Friendships: while they last we must make the most we can of them; buy them cheap and sell them dear; and above all things get a good percentage.' 'That's the game, Mr.Scott; and I will say no man understands it better than yourself--keep the ball a-running--that's your maxim.
Are you going it deep in Mary Jane, Mr.Scott ?' 'Who?
I! O no--she's a cut above me now, I fear.

The shares are worth any money now, I suppose.' 'Worth any money! I think they are, Mr.Scott, but I believe----' and then bringing his chair close up to that of his aristocratic friend, resting his hands, one on Mr.Scott's knee, and the other on his elbow, and breathing brandy into his ear, he whispered to him words of great significance.
'I'll leave you, Scott,' said Alaric, who did not enjoy the society of Mr.Manylodes, and to whom the nature of the conversation was, in his present position, extremely irksome; 'I must be back at the Bedford early.' 'Early--why early?
surely our honest friend can get himself to bed without your interference.

Come, you don't like the brandy toddy, nor I either.