I do not stand late hours.

If I let the day capture the night, the day after is apt to find me dull." "Well, stand it this once, Mark.

I hate councils of war or peace without the pipe, and now, imagine it, my dear wife wanted me to smoke, and that was all along of that terrible spittoon and the long-expected cousin of whom I have heard from time to time.

_Les absens n'out pas toujours tort_.

Now smoke and don't watch the clock.