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I shall never close my eyes all night, but what's that to you, so people can call you liberal, Mr. Caudle? Your wife and children may all be burnt alive in their beds as all of us to a certainty shall be, for the insurance MUST drop. And after we've insured for so many years! But how, I should like to know, are people to insure who make ducks and drakes of their five pounds?
Badgerly's whiskers? There's nothing to laugh at, Caudle; if you'd have seen that poor woman to-day, you'd have a heart of stone to laugh. What did you say of his whiskers? Didn't you tell everybody he dyed 'em? Didn't you hold the candle up to 'em, as you said, to show the purple? "Ha! people who break jokes never care about breaking hearts.
If that cat could only speak What? "I don't know what you mean, Mr. Caudle: but if that cat could only speak, she'd tell me how she's been cheated. Poor thing! I know where the money's gone to that I left for her milk I know. Why, what have you got there, Mr. Caudle? A book? What! "Well, now it is come to something!
With snow upon the ground. Yes; you're a man of fine feelings, you are, Mr. Caudle; but the world doesn't know you as I know you fine feelings, indeed! to send the poor girl out, when I told you and told your friend, too a pretty brute he is, I'm sure that the poor girl had got a cold and I dare say chilblains on her toes.
"Well, if I know myself at all, I could have borne anything but billiards. The companions you'll find! The Captains that will be always borrowing fifty pounds of you! I tell you, Caudle, a billiard-room's a place where ruin of all sorts is made easy, I may say, to the lowest understanding, so you can't miss it.
Then you've no business there at this time of night." "And saying this," writes Caudle, "she scrambled from the bed and put out the night." "Oh, Caudle, you ought to have had something nice to-night; for you're not well, love I know you're not. Ha! that's like you men so headstrong! You will have it that nothing ails you; but I can tell, Caudle.
Yes, it's very well for you to lie there and laugh; it's easy to laugh, Caudle very easy, to people who don't feel. "Now, Caudle, dear! What a man you are! I know you'll give me the money, because, after all, I think you love your children, and like to see 'em well dressed. It's only natural that a father should. Eh, Caudle, eh? Now you sha'n't go to sleep till you've told me.
And serve you right; if you hadn't laughed at her, it wouldn't have happened. But if you will make free with such people, of course you're sure to suffer for it. 'Twould have served you right if the lawyer's bill had been double. Damages, indeed! Not that anybody's tongue could have damaged her! "And now, Mr. Caudle, you're the same man you were ten years ago. What? "The more shame for you.
Why, they must think themselves nobody; and to think yourself nobody depend upon it, Caudle, isn't the way to make the world think anything of you. "What do you say? "Where do you think? I know a great deal more than you suppose yes; though you don't give me credit for it. Husbands seldom do. However, the twenty pounds I WILL have, if I've any or not a farthing. No, sir, no.
No, Caudle, no; it isn't nonsense to keep wedding-days; it isn't a deception on the world; and if it is, how many people do it! I'm sure it's only a proper compliment that a man owes to his wife. Look at the Winkles don't they give a dinner every year? Well, I know, and if they do fight a little in the course of the twelvemonth, that's nothing to do with it.
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