I laughed. Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number.

“A nice imbroglio you've landed me in. Thanks to you ...” “Yes, sir.” “Don't say ‘Yes, sir.’ Thanks to you I have been widely publicized as off my rocker.” “Not widely, sir. Merely to your immediate circle now resident at Brinkley Court.” “You have held me up at the bar of world opinion as a man who has not got all his marbles.” “It was not easy to think of an alternative scheme, sir.”

O lawlesse paunch the cause of much despight, Through raunging of a currish appetite, When splenish morsels cram the gaping Maw, Withouten diets care, or trencher-law, Tho neuer haue I Salerne rimes profest To be some Ladies trencher-criticke guest;

In front of the doors, a long table, on which chops of mutton, or steaks of beef, just killed, shot out of a frying - pan in company with potent onions and floods of boiling grease , followed each other , morning, noon, and night, on which wayfarers were expected to tertiate each day the tough teeth-task, accomplished through the soft insipidity of squashed pumpkins and sweet potatoes.