My lord comes into town to-day, and you must see him." "Why, then?
He can't help me with the Bashi-bazouks, can he ?" "Bashi-fiddles! I say, Tom, the more I think over it, the more it won't do.

It's throwing yourself away.

They say that Turkish contingent is getting on terribly ill." "More need of me to make them well." "Hang it--I mean--hasn't justice done it, and so on.

The papers are full of it." "Well," quoth Tom, "and why should it ?" "Why, man alive, if England spends all this money on the men, she ought to do her duty by them." "I don't see that.

As Pecksniff says, 'if England expects every man to do his duty, she's very sanguine, and will be much disappointed.' They don't intend to do their duty by her, any more than I do; so why should she do her duty by them ?" "Don't intend to do your duty ?" "I'm going out because England's money is necessary to me; and England hires me because my skill is necessary to her.