And there being no deed of partnership, I made out you were only a kind of clerk that I called a partner just to give you taffy; and so I got you ranked a creditor on the estate for your wages and the money you had lent.
And----" I believe I reeled.

"A creditor!" I roared; "a creditor! I'm not in the bankruptcy at all ?" "No," said Jim.

"I know it was a liberty----" "O, damn your liberty! read that," I cried, dashing the letter before him on the table, "and call in your wife, and be done with eating this truck "-- as I spoke, I slung the cold mutton in the empty grate--"and let's all go and have a champagne supper.

I've dined--I'm sure I don't remember what I had; I'd dine again ten scores of times upon a night like this.

Read it, you blaying ass! I'm not insane.