Miss Armsworth will be out of her mind when she hears you're coming." And off he went.
"Do you think he'll come up to the scratch, Tom ?" "I am very much afraid his courage will fail him.

I will see him again, and bring him up with me: but now, my dear Mr.Armsworth, do remember one thing; that if you go on with him at your usual rate of hospitality, the man will as surely be drunk, as his nerves and brain are all but ruined; and if he is so, he will most probably destroy himself to-morrow morning." "Destroy himself ?" "He will.

The shame of making a fool of himself just now before you will be more than he could bear.

So be stingy for once.

He will not wish for it unless you press him; but if he talks (and he will talk after the first half-hour), he will forget himself, and half a bottle will make him mad; and then I won't answer for the consequences." "Good gracious! why, these poets want as tender handling as a bag of gunpowder over the fire." "You speak like a book there in your turn." And Tom went home to his father.
He returned in due time.