Hard enough to keep myself, much more a family, on five hundred a year.

Come to Dickinson's; there's some of the best Madeira in London there, my boy.' So we went and talked over old times.

The bill for dinner and wine consumed was prodigious, and the quantity of brandy-and-water that Jack took showed what a regular boozer he was.

'A guinea or two guineas.

What the devil do I care what I spend for my dinner ?' says he.
'And Letty Lovelace ?' says I.
Jack's countenance fell.