"I was in fact inviting you to share our refreshment.

You see we have just come in." "Then," said the lad, "it was condemnable impertinence.

Since you have taken this fellow up, couldn't you teach him that it's bad taste to thrust his company upon people who don't want it, Dane ?" Winston said nothing, but drew Dane, who flushed a trifle, aside, and when they sat down the latter smiled dryly.
"You have taken on a big contract, Courthorne.

How are you going to get the young ass out ?" he said.
"Well," said Winston, "it would gratify me to take him by the neck, but as I don't know that it would please the Colonel if I made a public spectacle of one of his retainers, I fancy I'll have to tackle the gambler.

I don't know him, but as he comes from across the frontier it's more than likely he has heard of me.