"Since we have missed the big game, let us follow the less.

I'm for supper, if this gentleman will permit us to share a feast destined for another.

Sit down, sir, and fill your glass.

You are not to be blamed for not being a certain Scots lord.
Lovel, I dare say, is an honester name than Lovat!" But Talbot was regarding the traveller with hard eyes.

"You called him a thrush, Nick, but I have a notion he is more of a knavish jackdaw.