You ask young man to drink champagne with you, you make him dronk, he interrupt you with very good sense; he ask your pardon, yet you not.

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." "Well," said the jockey, "I am satisfied.

I am rather a short-tempered person, but I bear no malice.

He is, as you say, drinking my wine, and has perhaps taken a drop too much, not being used to such high liquor; but one doesn't like to be put out of one's tale, more especially when one was about to moralise, do you see, oneself, and to show off what little learning one has.