'This ambition is the strangest that I have ever heard tell of.' 'Anything for a change,' cried Sir Gervas, filling up a bumper.

'Here's to the maid that's next our heart, and here's to the heart that loves the maids! War, wine, and women, 'twould be a dull world without them.
But you have not answered my question.' 'Why truly, sir,' said I, 'frank as you have been with us, I can scarce be equally so with you, without the permission of the gentleman who has just left the room.

He is the leader of our party.

Pleasant as our short intercourse has been, these are parlous times, and hasty confidences are apt to lead to repentance.' 'A Daniel come to judgment!' cried our new acquaintance.

'What ancient, ancient words from so young a head! You are, I'll warrant, five years younger than a scatterbrain like myself, and yet you talk like the seven wise men of Greece.