I should think it no disgrace to work, Heaven knows.

Lying indolently here, like a half-tamed sullen beast, distracts me.' 'I don't know,' said Newman; 'small things offer--they would pay the rent, and more--but you wouldn't like them; no, you could hardly be expected to undergo it--no, no.' 'What could I hardly be expected to undergo ?' asked Nicholas, raising his eyes.

'Show me, in this wide waste of London, any honest means by which I could even defray the weekly hire of this poor room, and see if I shrink from resorting to them! Undergo! I have undergone too much, my friend, to feel pride or squeamishness now.

Except--' added Nicholas hastily, after a short silence, 'except such squeamishness as is common honesty, and so much pride as constitutes self-respect.

I see little to choose, between assistant to a brutal pedagogue, and toad-eater to a mean and ignorant upstart, be he member or no member.' 'I hardly know whether I should tell you what I heard this morning, or not,' said Newman.
'Has it reference to what you said just now ?' asked Nicholas.
'It has.' 'Then in Heaven's name, my good friend, tell it me,' said Nicholas.