"I know that there is a great deal that a fellow should do, living in such a house as this, but I am not the man to do it.

It's a very good kind of life, if you happen to be up to it.

I am not, but you are." "My dear Fred, you can't change the accidents of birth." "In a great measure I can; or at least we can do so between us.

You can't be Lord Scroope, but you can be master of Scroope Manor." "No I can't;--and, which is more, I won't.

Don't think I am uncivil." "You are uncivil, Jack." "At any rate I am not ungrateful.