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Mr Clam looked first at the colonel and Captain Hope, and Mrs Smith but they were so busy in their own conversation, that they did not observe him. Then followed Major M'Toddy, Captain Smith, and Mr Chatterton. "Here's our civil friend," said the Major "amicas noster, as a body may say." "Oh, by Jove!" said Mr Chatterton, "I ought to teach this fellow a lesson in natural history."
"May gang to the deevil," interposed Major M'Toddy abeat in malam crucem, as a body may say We've no time for havers, i prae, sequar, as a body may say. What's the number of her room?" "No. 14," said the Captain, and the three gentlemen passed on. "Her room!" said Mr Clam, "another lady! Waiter!" "Yes sir."
"'Deed ay placens uxor, as a body may say I say if your wife continues to like Chatterton, you had better send a message to him, and not he to you." "So I would, if she gave me occasion, Major M'Toddy; but if your friend boasts of any thing of that kind, his conduct is still more infamous and intolerable than I thought it." "But your ainsel' your own self told me so this minute."
Give me your hand, my dear we must keep those wild young fellows in order. If I see them look at each other, I'll put them both in arrest. But what can be the meaning of Chatterton's behaviour? I hear such good reports of him from all hands! M'Toddy writes me he is the finest young man in the corps." "I can't pretend to guess.
The youth looked somewhat inclined to be angry at this mode of hinting that he was still rather juvenile but the major went on. "And you were engaged, six months ago, to the beauty you used to tell me so much about, Miss Hope of Oakside." "Yes yes well?" replied the youth. "And what for have ye broke off in such a sudden manner? unde rixa? as a body may say." "I broke off, Major M'Toddy?
"Do you forgive me," she said to her husband, "for coming down without your knowledge?" "I suppose I must," said Captain Smith, laughing, "on condition that you pardon me for the same offence?" "And noo, then," said Major M'Toddy, "I propose that we all, together and singly, conjunctim ac separatim as a body may say go down instanter to the Waterloo Hotel.
"I knew she would be anxious to receive her brother Charles on his landing, and as I had wormed out from her the circumstances of this lover's quarrel" "Amantium ira amoris redintegratio est as a body may say," interposed Major M'Toddy.
"I'm thinking jay is the English for some sort of a pyet a tale-bearer, as a body may say a blab." "A blab! by heavens, Major M'Toddy, I don't know what to say if I thought the fellow really meant to insinuate any thing of that kind, I would horsewhip him though I met him in a church." "Oho! so your conscience is pricked at last? mens sibi non conscia, as a body may say," answered the major.
"I wish to heaven M'Toddy had not left me! Is it fair to ask," he continued, aloud, "of what nature your business is with Mr Chatterton? I am his most intimate acquaintance; whatever you say to me is sure to reach him." "I must speak to him myself, sir," replied the stranger, coldly. "Where am I likely to find him?"
He turned to Captain Smith, and said: "I'm very sorry, Captain Smith, to make your acquaintance on such a disagreeable occasion. I've heard so much of you from mutual friends, that I feel as if I had known you myself, quod facit per alium facit per se I'm Major M'Toddy of this regiment."
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