Is there enough gravy?
Perhaps your lordship will try the pickled onions ?" "The what?
Onions!--oh! ah! nothing can be better; but I never touch them.

So, are the roads good ?" "Your lordship has, I hope, found them good to Salisbury ?" "Ah! I believe so.

Oh! to be sure, excellent to Salisbury.

But how are they to London?
We have had wet weather lately, I think!" "No, my lord.

Here the weather has been dry as a bone." "Or a cutlet!" muttered Mauleverer; and the host continued,-- "As for the roads themselves, my lord, so far as the roads are concerned, they are pretty good, my lord; but I can't say as how there is not something about them that might be mended." "By no means improbable! You mean the inns and the turnpikes ?" rejoined Mauleverer.
"Your lordship is pleased to be facetious; no! I meant something worse than them." "What! the cooks ?" "No, my lord, the highwaymen!" "The highwaymen! indeed ?" said Mauleverer, anxiously; for he had with him a case of diamonds, which at that time were on grand occasions often the ornaments of a gentleman's dress, in the shape of buttons, buckles, etc.