'I'll be,' says Twemlow, 'at the club by ten minutes to twelve, and I'll never leave it all day.'
Veneering feels that his friends are rallying round him, and says,
'she,'
says I, 'is a gentlewoman, and they call her madam.'
He has more leisure for musing in Staple Inn and in the Rolls Yard during the long vacation than at other seasons, and he
says to the two 'prentices, what a thing it is in such hot weather to think that you live in an island with the sea a-rolling and a-bowling right round you.
I see he had a still on an' I didn' wanna giv 'im no stuff, so I
says: 'Git deh hell outa here an' don' make no trouble,' I
says like dat!
'They shakes hands, and Jerry Moore
says, "Is this a friend of yours, Bailey?" looking at me.
"Man,"
says this Madame Zozo, "the line of your fate shows--"
MENO: Well then, Socrates, virtue, as I take it, is when he, who desires the honourable, is able to provide it for himself; so the poet
says, and I
say too--
Every time he danced around and
says, "Dah's Cairo!" it went through me like a shot, and I thought if it WAS Cairo I reckoned I would die of miserableness.
"Matter enough!" he
says. "Wasn't you expecting we would be the first to tell the family who it is that's been killed yonder in the sycamores, and all about them rapscallions that done it, and about the di'monds they've smouched off of the corpse, and paint it up fine, and have the glory of being the ones that knows a lot more about it than anybody else?"
Tell me then, O thou heir of the argument, what did Simonides
say, and according to you truly
say, about justice?
"I wonder,"
says she, "at your assurance in daring to talk thus of one of my father's friends.