And I'd a great deal sooner see you than his lordship." "That's very flattering, Mr.Gotobed, but I'm sure I don't know why." "Because Lord Drummond always seems to me to have more on hand than he knows how to get through, and you never seem to have anything to do." "That's not quite so flattering,--and would be killing, only that I feel that your opinion is founded on error.

Mens conscia recti, Mr.
Gotobed." "Exactly.

I understand English pretty well;--better, as far as I can see than some of those I meet around me here; but I don't go beyond that, Mr.Green." "I merely meant to observe, Mr.Gotobed, that as, within my own breast, I am conscious of my zeal and diligence in Her Majesty's service your shafts of satire pass me by without hurting me.

Shall I offer you a cigar?
A candle burned at both ends is soon consumed." It was quite clear that as quickly as the Senator got through one end of his cigar by the usual process of burning, so quickly did he eat the other end.

But he took that which Mounser Green offered him without any displeasure at the allusion.