I rely as much, or more, on you than him.

Tom Scott comes back.

Lantern, pipes, more grog, and a jolly night of it!' No other word was spoken, no other look exchanged, which had the slightest reference to this, the real occasion of their meeting.

The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest and advantage, and nothing more was needed.

Resuming his boisterous manner with the same ease with which he had thrown it off, Quilp was in an instant the same uproarious, reckless little savage he had been a few seconds before.