[Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookMemoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush CHAPTER IV 27/60
"If you're quiet, you shall have half this fellow's money: but venture to win a shilling from him in my absence, or without my consent, and you do it at your peril." "Well, well, Mr.Deuceace," cries Dick, "it's very hard, and I must say, not fair: the game was of my startin, and you've no right to interfere with my friend." "Mr.Blewitt, you are a fool! You professed yesterday not to know this man, and I was obliged to find him out for myself.
I should like to know by what law of honor I am bound to give him up to you ?" It was charmin to hear this pair of raskles talkin about HONOR.
I declare I could have found it in my heart to warn young Dawkins of the precious way in which these chaps were going to serve him.
But if THEY didn't know what honor was, I did; and never, never did I tell tails about my masters when in their sarvice--OUT, in cors, the hobligation is no longer binding. Well, the nex day there was a gran dinner at our chambers.
White soop, turbit, and lobstir sos; saddil of Scoch muttn, grous, and M'Arony; wines, shampang, hock, maderia, a bottle of poart, and ever so many of clarrit.
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