"Love for your brother-in-arms, love for your commander if he be a commander worth having, love for your horse and dog, I understand.

But wedded love! to tie a burden around one's neck because 't is pink and white, or clear bronze, and shaped with elegance! Faugh!" "Yet I came with half a mind to persuade thee to that very burden!" he cried, with another laugh.
"Thanks for thy pains," I said, blowing blue rings into the air.
"I have ridden to-day from Jamestown," he went on.

"I was the only man, i' faith, that cared to leave its gates; and I met the world--the bachelor world--flocking to them.

Not a mile of the way but I encountered Tom, Dick, and Harry, dressed in their Sunday bravery and making full tilt for the city.

And the boats upon the river! I have seen the Thames less crowded." "There was more passing than usual," I said; "but I was busy in the fields, and did not attend.