This Mr Thomson seems a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. It would please me none the worse, if (with all his merits) he were soused in the North Sea; for the man, Mr Balfour, is a sore embarrassment.

“Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish t…”

“But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You mightn't happen to have a p…”

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”

“I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of th…”