'I have sometimes thought I should like to try to behave like a gentleman myself; only it's such a one-sided business, with the world and the legal profession as they are.' 'Then, in the third,' resumed the drawing-master, 'if it's Uncle Tim, of course, our fortune's made.' 'It's not Uncle Tim, though,' said the lawyer.
'Have you observed that very remarkable expression: SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE ?' enquired Pitman shrewdly.
'You innocent mutton,' said Michael, 'it's the seediest commonplace in the English language, and only proves the advertiser is an ass.

Let me demolish your house of cards for you at once.

Would Uncle Tim make that blunder in your name ?--in itself, the blunder is delicious, a huge improvement on the gross reality, and I mean to adopt it in the future; but is it like Uncle Tim ?' 'No, it's not like him,' Pitman admitted.

'But his mind may have become unhinged at Ballarat.' 'If you come to that, Pitman,' said Michael, 'the advertiser may be Queen Victoria, fired with the desire to make a duke of you.

I put it to yourself if that's probable; and yet it's not against the laws of nature.