Intrigues! I regret to say only half a dozen yet, but my prospects in that direction are good." "Have you fought?
Did you ever commit murder ?" "It can scarcely be called by that name.

It was in tavern brawls; one was a rascally cockleman, and the other a rascally oyster-man." "How did you manage the oysterman with a knife, eh ?" "No, sirrah; with my sword I did him open." "Have you any expectation of being hanged ?" "Why, according to the life I have led, I think there is every probability that I may reach that honorable position." The old peer could bear this no longer.

He burst out into a loud laugh, which lasted upwards of two minutes.
"Faith," said Harry, "if you had such a prospect before you, I don't think you would consider it such a laughing matter." "Curse you, sir, do you know who I am ?" "Curse yourself, sir," replied the other, "no, I don't; how should I, when I never saw you before ?" "Sir, I am Lord Cockletown." "And, sir, I am Harry Woodward, son--favorite son--to, Mrs.Lindsay of Rathfillan House." "What! are you a son of that old fagot ?" "Her favorite son, as I said; that old fagot, sir, is my mother." "Ay, but who was your father ?" asked his lordship, with a grin, "for that's the rub." "That is the rub," said Woodward, laughing; "how the devil can I tell ?" "Good again," said his lordship; "confound me but you are a queer one.

I tell you what, I like you." "I don't care a curse whether you do or not, provided your niece does." "Are you the fellow that has been abroad, and returned home lately ?" "I am the very fellow," replied Woodward, with a ludicrous and good-humored emphasis upon the word fellow.
"There was a bonfire made for you on your return ?" "There was, my lord." "And there fell a shower of blood upon that occasion ?" "Not a doubt of it, my lord." "Well, you are a strange fellow altogether.

I have not for a long time met a man so much after my own heart." "That is because our dispositions resemble each other.