I'm always a-thinking that with my good health and spirits it would be more creditable in me to be jolly where there's things a-going on to make one dismal.

It may be a mistake of mine you see, but nothing short of trying how it acts will set it right.

Then an't it best that I should go; particular when your free way has helped me out to say all this, and we can part as good friends as we have ever been since first I entered this here noble Dragon, which,' said Mr Tapley in conclusion, 'has my good word and my good wish to the day of my death!' The hostess sat quite silent for a little time, but she very soon put both her hands in Mark's and shook them heartily.
'For you are a good man,' she said; looking into his face with a smile, which was rather serious for her.

'And I do believe have been a better friend to me to-night than ever I have had in all my life.' 'Oh! as to that, you know,' said Mark, 'that's nonsense.

But love my heart alive!' he added, looking at her in a sort of rapture, 'if you ARE that way disposed, what a lot of suitable husbands there is as you may drive distracted!' She laughed again at this compliment; and, once more shaking him by both hands, and bidding him, if he should ever want a friend, to remember her, turned gayly from the little bar and up the Dragon staircase.
'Humming a tune as she goes,' said Mark, listening, 'in case I should think she's at all put out, and should be made down-hearted.