You see me, do you ?' 'I do,' replied the serjeant with an oath, 'and a finer young fellow or one better qualified to serve his king and country, I never set my--' he used an adjective in this place--'eyes on.
'Thank you,' said Joe, 'I didn't ask you for want of a compliment, but thank you all the same.

Do I look like a sneaking fellow or a liar ?' The serjeant rejoined with many choice asseverations that he didn't; and that if his (the serjeant's) own father were to say he did, he would run the old gentleman through the body cheerfully, and consider it a meritorious action.
Joe expressed his obligations, and continued, 'You can trust me then, and credit what I say.

I believe I shall enlist in your regiment to-night.

The reason I don't do so now is, because I don't want until to-night, to do what I can't recall.

Where shall I find you, this evening ?' His friend replied with some unwillingness, and after much ineffectual entreaty having for its object the immediate settlement of the business, that his quarters would be at the Crooked Billet in Tower Street; where he would be found waking until midnight, and sleeping until breakfast time to-morrow.
'And if I do come--which it's a million to one, I shall--when will you take me out of London ?' demanded Joe.
'To-morrow morning, at half after eight o'clock,' replied the serjeant.
'You'll go abroad--a country where it's all sunshine and plunder--the finest climate in the world.' 'To go abroad,' said Joe, shaking hands with him, 'is the very thing I want.