Don't be so violent with me.

You were, were you not ?' 'Not of plundering among present company! Honour among--among gentlemen, Sir,' returned the other, who seemed to have been very near giving an awkward termination to the sentence.
'Don't be hard upon him, Jowl,' said Isaac List.

'He's very sorry for giving offence.

There--go on with what you were saying--go on.' 'I'm a jolly old tender-hearted lamb, I am,' cried Mr Jowl, 'to be sitting here at my time of life giving advice when I know it won't be taken, and that I shall get nothing but abuse for my pains.

But that's the way I've gone through life.