At the cost of any humiliation that downfall must be avoided.
His words, however, had an immediate effect upon Mr.Jarvice, though for quite other reasons.
"Why, that's true," said Mr.Jarvice, slowly, and in a voice suddenly grown smooth.

"Yes, yes, we don't want to mix up my name in the affair at all.

Sit down, Mr.Hine, and take a cigar.

The box is at your elbow.
Young men of spirit must have some extra license allowed to them for the sake of the promise of their riper years.

I was forgetting that.