'You've no notion owhat the certainty of cash means to a man who has always wanted it badly.
Nothing will pay me for some of my life's joys; on that Chinese pig-boat, for instance, when we ate bread and jam for every meal, because Ho-Wang wouldn't allow us anything better, and it all tasted of pig,--Chinese pig.

I've worked for this, I've sweated and I've starved for this, line on line and month after month.

And now I've got it I am going to make the most of it while it lasts.

Let them pay--they've no knowledge.' 'What does Your Majesty please to want?
You can't smoke more than you do; you won't drink; you're a gross feeder; and you dress in the dark, by the look of you.

You wouldn't keep a horse the other day when I suggested, because, you said, it might fall lame, and whenever you cross the street you take a hansom.