Ah! my fingers itch to be at the rope.
Fate, however, and the laws are averse.

To gibbet him, in one sense, would have been my privilege, had I drunk deeper from that Castalian rill whose dark waters are tinged with the gall of poetic indignation; but as in other sense I may not hang him, I will tell how he was driven from his club, and how he ceased to number himself among the legislators of his country.
Undy Scott, among his other good qualities, possessed an enormous quantity of that which schoolboys in these days call 'cheek.' He was not easily browbeaten, and was generally prepared to browbeat others.

Mr.Chaffanbrass certainly did get the better of him; but then Mr.Chaffanbrass was on his own dunghill.

Could Undy Scott have had Mr.Chaffanbrass down at the clubs, there would have been, perhaps, another tale to tell.
Give me the cock that can crow in any yard; such cocks, however, we know are scarce.

Undy Scott, as he left the Old Bailey, was aware that he had cut a sorry figure, and felt that he must immediately do something to put himself right again, at any rate before his portion of the world.