As a matter of course he gave all his dinners, unless upon rare occasions, in Jack Shepherd's excellent inn; but as young Clinton and he were on terms of the most confidential intimacy, he had asked him to dine on the day in question at his father's.
"You know, my dear Harry," he said to his friend, "there is no use in striving to conceal the honest vulgarity of Jemmy the gentleman from you who know it already.

I may say ditto to madam, who is unquestionably the most vulgar of the two--for, and I am sorry to say it, in addition to a superabundant stock of vulgarity, she has still a larger assortment of the prides; for instance, pride of wealth, of the purse, pride of--I was going to add, birth--ha! ha! ha!--of person, ay, of beauty, if you please--of her large possessions--but that comes under the purse again--and lastly--but that is the only well-founded principle among them--of her accomplished son, Hycy.

This, now, being all within your cognizance already, my dear Hal, you take a pig's cheek and a fowl with me to-day.

There will be nobody but ourselves, for when I see company at home I neither admit the gentleman nor the lady to table.

Damn it, you know the thing would be impossible.