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'I'd rather have a pot of beer out of the pewter, said Caldigate. 'Very like. One doesn't drink cham paign because it's better nor anything else. A nobbler of brandy's worth ten of it. It's the glory of out-facing the swells at their own game. There was a chap over in the other colony shod his horse with gold, and he had to go shepherding afterwards for thirty pounds a-year and his grub.
Such poverty as this it has been reserved for this age of ours to honour while it afflicted; it is reserved for the age to come to honour it and to spare." What, man! I know them, yea, And what they weigh even to the utmost scruple; Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander. Much Ado about Nothing, act 5, scene 1.
That young couple, for instance, under the pepper-tree, sitting there without a word, just looking at the trees. How long, he wondered, had they been sitting like that? And suddenly something in the Colonel leaped; his steel-coloured eyes took on their look of out-facing death.
I could not but admire the intensity of his greed, when I saw him out-facing for its sake whatever terror it was that ran wet on his forehead. I ceased to tap the leather was, indeed, calculating the cost of the shed when I felt my relaxed hand taken and turned softly between the soft hands of a child. So at last I had triumphed.
"Pray let him go," said Lydia, disengaging herself from the butcher and catching Cashel's arm. Cashel, with a start, relaxed his grasp; and Teddy rolled on the ground. He went away thrusting his hands iuto his sleeves, and out-facing his disgrace by a callous grin.
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