When he isn't half-seas over he is gloomy and morose.

From the first I knew that something had gone wrong on the mainland; but I couldn't trap him for a farthing.

No man at his age drinks himself to death without cause; I told him so, but he only laughed at me.

I'd give a good deal to know what the truth is; not from curiosity, mind you, but to find the disease in order to apply a remedy.

Dan's father died of drink." "No," said I coldly; "he was shot." "Oh, I know that," was the reply; "but give a conditioned man the same wound and he will recover, nine times out of ten.