Any man could be jolly at the Dragon.

There's no credit in THAT.' 'But if common report be true for once, Mark, as I think it is, being able to confirm it by what I know myself,' said Mr Pinch, 'you are the cause of half this merriment, and set it going.' 'There may be something in that, too, sir,' answered Mark.

'But that's no consolation.' 'Well!' said Mr Pinch, after a short silence, his usually subdued tone being even now more subdued than ever.

'I can hardly think enough of what you tell me.

Why, what will become of Mrs Lupin, Mark ?' Mark looked more fixedly before him, and further off still, as he answered that he didn't suppose it would be much of an object to her.
There were plenty of smart young fellows as would be glad of the place.
He knew a dozen himself.
'That's probable enough,' said Mr Pinch, 'but I am not at all sure that Mrs Lupin would be glad of them.