I mean to go and live wherever the fancy seizes me--at the wharf--at the counting-house--and be a jolly bachelor.

You were a widow in anticipation.

Damme,' screamed the dwarf, 'I'll be a bachelor in earnest.' 'You can't be serious, Quilp,' sobbed his wife.
'I tell you,' said the dwarf, exulting in his project, 'that I'll be a bachelor, a devil-may-care bachelor; and I'll have my bachelor's hall at the counting-house, and at such times come near it if you dare.

And mind too that I don't pounce in upon you at unseasonable hours again, for I'll be a spy upon you, and come and go like a mole or a weazel.
Tom Scott--where's Tom Scott ?' 'Here I am, master,' cried the voice of the boy, as Quilp threw up the window.
'Wait there, you dog,' returned the dwarf, 'to carry a bachelor's portmanteau.

Pack it up, Mrs Quilp.