"
"I don't expect him to be knocking men about in the streets at
midnight."
"It ain't that, sir."
"I say it is that!"
"Very well, sir. Only we've all heard down-stairs as Mr. Harry wasn't
him as struck the first blow. It was all about a young lady."
"I know what it was about."
"A young lady as is a young lady."--This was felt to the quick by Mr.
Prosper, in regard to the gin-drinking Miss Puffle and the brewer-bred
Miss Thoroughbung; but as he was beginning to think that the
continuation of the family of the Prospers must depend on the marriage
which Harry might make, he passed over the slur upon himself for the
sake of the praise given to the future mother of the Prospers.--"And
when a young gentleman has set his heart on a young lady he's not going
to be braggydoshoed out of it."
"Captain Scarborough knew her first."
"First come first served isn't always the way with lovers. Mr. Harry was
the conquering hero. 'Weni, widi, wici.'"
"Halloo, Matthew!"
"Them's the words as they say a young gentleman ought to use when he's
got the better of a young lady's affections; and I dare say they're the
very words as put the captain into such a towering passion. I can
understand how it happened, just as if I saw it.
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