And, Burgess ?" "Sir ?" "Now that you have waked up this morning to find yourself a hero, I think you'd better find yourself another and more spectacular master.

My heroism, for the future, is to be more or less inconspicuous; in fact, I begin the campaign by inserting my own studs and cleaning my own clothes, and keeping out of gaol; and the sooner I go where that kind of glory calls me the sooner my name will be emblazoned in the bright lexicon of youth where there's no such word as 'jail.'", "Sir ?" "In simpler and more archaic phrase, I can't afford you, Burgess, unless I pilfer for a living." "I don't eat much, sir." "No, you don't _eat_ much." "I could quit drinking, sir." "_That_ is really touching, Burgess.

This alcohol pickled integument of yours covers a trusting heart.

But it won't do.
Heroics in a hall bedroom cut no coupons, my poor friend.

Our paths to glory and the grave part just outside the door-sill yonder." "_She_ said I could stay, sir." "Which _she_ ?" "The landlady.