You did me good service at Pentremochyn, and did it cheaply.

I was agreeably surprised, I confess, at receiving a bill for four pounds seven shillings and sixpence, where I expected one of twenty or thirty." "I charged according to what my time was really worth there, my lord.

I heartily wish it had been worth more." "No doubt," says my lord, in the blandest, but the driest tone.
Some men would have, under a sense of Tom's merits, sent him a cheque off-hand for five-and-twenty pounds: but that is not Lord Minchampstead's way of doing business.

He had paid simply the sum asked: but he had set Tom down in his memory as a man whom he could trust to do good work, and to do it cheaply; and now-- "You are going to join the Turkish contingent ?" "I am." "You know that part of the world well, I believe ?" "Intimately." "And the languages spoken there ?" "By no means all.

Russian and Tartar well; Turkish tolerably; with a smattering of two or three Circassian dialects." "Humph! A fair list.