If you will let me, I'll get up and get you a couple of bait from the stew.

You'll do us keepers a kindness, and prevent sin, sir, if you'll catch him.

The squire will swear sadly--the Lord forgive him--if he hears of a pike in the trout-runs.

I'll get up, if I may trouble you to go into the next room a minute.' 'Lie still, for Heaven's sake.

Why bother your head about pike now ?' 'It is my business, sir, and I am paid for it, and I must do it thoroughly;--and abide in the calling wherein I am called,' he added, in a sadder tone.
'You seem to be fond enough of it, and to know enough about it, at all events,' said the colonel, 'tying flies here on a sick-bed.' 'As for being fond of it, sir--those creatures of the water teach a man many lessons; and when I tie flies, I earn books.' 'How then ?' 'I send my flies all over the country, sir, to Salisbury and Hungerford, and up to Winchester, even; and the money buys me many a wise book--all my delight is in reading; perhaps so much the worse for me.' 'So much the better, say,' answered Lancelot warmly.