Cops body, this is not the carpet whereon my treasurer shall be allowed to play false in his accounts with me, by setting down an X for a V, or an L for an S.

For in that case should I make a hail of fisticuffs to fly into his face.

Look upon me, sir, both before and behind,--it is made after the manner of a toga, which was the ancient fashion of the Romans in time of peace.

I took the mode, shape, and form thereof in Trajan's Column at Rome, as also in the Triumphant Arch of Septimus Severus.

I am tired of the wars, weary of wearing buff-coats, cassocks, and hoquetons.