All goes to the women; they have but to ask to have.

I prayed the King to give me for a cousin of mine a place in the Life Guards that was to be vacant, and he--by Heaven, he promised! Then comes Nell, and Nell wants it for a friend--and Nell has it for a friend--and I go empty!" I had started when he spoke of the Life Guards, and sat now in a state of great disturbance.

Darrell also, as I perceived, was very uneasy, and made a hasty effort to alter the course of the conversation; but Mr Jermyn would not have it.
"Who is the happy--the new happy man, that is Mistress Nell's friend ?" he asked, smiling.
"Some clod from the country," returned the Earl; "his name, they say, is Dale." I felt my heart beating, but I trust that I looked cool enough as I leant across and said, "Your lordship is misinformed.

I have the best of reasons for saying so." "The reasons may be good, sir," he retorted with a stare, "but they are not evident." "I am myself just named to a commission in the King's Life Guards, and my name is Dale," said I, restraining myself to a show of composure, for I felt Darrell's hand on my arm.
"By my faith, then, you're the happy man," sneered Carford.

"I congratulate you on your----" "Stay, stay, Carford," interposed Mr Jermyn.
"On your--godmother," said Carford.
"You're misinformed, my lord," I repeated fiercely, although by now a great fear had come upon me.