They look vicious, those scowling eyebrows, in a girl.

_Qu'en dites-vous_, Mr.Titmarsh, as Miss Brough would say ?" "I think it remarkably good claret, sir," says I.
"Egad, you're the right sort of fellow!" says the Captain.

"_Volto sciolto_, eh?
You respect our sleeping host yonder ?" "That I do, sir, as the first man in the city of London, and my managing director." "And so do I," says Tidd; "and this day fortnight, when I'm of age, I'll prove my confidence too." "As how ?" says I.
"Why, sir, you must know that I come into--ahem--a considerable property, sir, on the 14th of July, which my father made--in business." "Say at once he was a tailor, Tidd." "He _was_ a tailor, sir,--but what of that?
I've had a University education, and have the feelings of a gentleman; as much--ay, perhaps, and more, than some members of an effete aristocracy." "Tidd, don't be severe!" says the Captain, drinking a tenth glass.
"Well, Mr.Titmarsh, when of age I come into a considerable property; and Mr.Brough has been so good as to say he can get me twelve hundred a year for my twenty thousand pounds, and I have promised to invest them." "In the West Diddlesex, sir ?" says I--"in our office ?" "No, in another company, of which Mr.Brough is director, and quite as good a thing.

Mr.Brough is a very old friend of my family, sir, and he has taken a great liking to me; and he says that with my talents I ought to get into Parliament; and then--and then! after I have laid out my patrimony, I may look to _matrimony_, you see!" "Oh, you designing dog!" said the Captain.

"When I used to lick you at school, who ever would have thought that I was thrashing a sucking statesman ?" "Talk away, boys!" said Brough, waking out of his sleep; "I only sleep with half an eye, and hear you all.