Besides, I would not for worlds break the pleasure of your _tete-a-tete_.' 'Will you come down after dinner ?' 'No; neither after dinner, nor before breakfast; not all the coffee, nor all the claret of the Bedford shall tempt me.
Remember, my friend, you are paid for it; I am not.' 'Well, then, good morning,' said Alaric.

'I must go in and face my fate, like a Briton.' Undy went on for a few steps, and then returned, as though a sudden thought had struck him.

'But, Tudor, I have bowels of compassion within me, though no pluck.

I am willing to rescue you from your misery, though I will not partake it.

Come up to me this evening, and I will give you a glass of brandy-punch.
Your true miners never drink less generous tipple.' 'How on earth am I to shake off this incubus of the Woods and Works ?' 'Shake him off?
Why, make him drunk and put him to bed; or tell him at once that the natural iniquity of your disposition makes it necessary that you should spend a few hours of the day in the company of a sinner like myself.