I would I were the rich man you take me for.

But even the dress I wear is mine through the charity of a kinsman, as is also the nag I ride.

And I misdoubt me if you would find him of much use to you in your occupation." One or two of the men laughed.

They looked at Dobbin and then at his rider, and seemed to give credence to this tale.

Cuthbert's boyish face and fearless manner seemed to work in his favour, and one of the band remarked that he was a bold young blade, and if in search of a fortune, might do worse than cast in his lot with them.
"Yet I verily thought there had been two," grumbled another of the band; "I wonder if he speaks sooth." "I warrant me he does, else where should the other be?
It was a trick of the moonlight; it often deceives us so.
"Come now, my young cockerel; you can crow lustily, it seems, and keep a bold face where others shrink and tremble and flee.