'You can charge no consequences on me.

When do you retire home ?' 'Whenever you please, my dear sir.

To-night if you desire it.' 'I desire nothing,' returned the old man, 'that is unreasonable.

Such a request would be.

Will you be ready to return at the end of this week ?' The very time of all others that Mr Pecksniff would have suggested if it had been left to him to make his own choice.