But suppose as all the liberal gents as employs you, Mr Scruby, was to turn again you and not pay you your little bills, wouldn't you have your eyes open for customers of another kind?
Come now, Mr Scruby ?" "You won't make much of that game, Grimes." "Perhaps not; perhaps not.

There's a risk in all these things; isn't there, Mr Vavasor?
I should like to see you a Parliament gent; I should indeed.

You'd be a credit to the districts; I really think you would." "I'm much obliged by your good opinion, Mr Grimes," said George.
"When I sees a gent coming forward I knows whether he's fit for Parliament, or whether he ain't.

I says you are fit.

But Lord love you, Mr Vavasor; it's a thing a gentleman always has to pay for." "That's true enough; a deal more than it's worth, generally." "A thing's worth what it fetches.