Don't you think it is rather seedy--to go to Africa with?
Why, I shall disgrace you on board the ship.

I say, Dick, lend me three sovs., just to buy a new suit at the slop-shop." "Well, brother-in-law," said Dick, "I don't see any harm in that.

I'll go and fetch them for you." What does this sensible Dick do but go up-stairs to Phoebe, and say, "He wants three pounds to buy a suit; am I to lend it him ?" Phoebe was shaking and patting her penitent's pillow.

She dropped it on the bed in dismay.

"Oh, Dick, not for all the world! Why, if he had three sovereigns, he'd desert me at the water's edge.