"It ought to have been mine." "What shall you do without it ?" "What, indeed!" he answered.

"From being a landed country gentleman--as people have imagined me--I go down to a poor fellow who must work for his bread and cheese before he eats it.

Your eyes are laughing, Miss Lucy, but it is true." "Bread and cheese costs nothing," said she.
"No?
And the plate you put it on, and the knife you eat it with, and the glass of beer to help it go down, and the coat you wear during the repast, and the room it's served in ?--they cost something, Miss Lucy." Lucy laughed.

"I think you will always have enough bread and cheese," said she.

"You look as though you would." Decima turned to them.