The things we do!

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"Hem!" grunts the neighbour, Mr. Bayham; "it doesn't much matter, for we
had all pretty well done dinner." Barnes takes a note of Mr. Bayham's
dress--his long frock-coat, the ribbon round his neck; and surveys him
with an admirable impudence. "Who are these people," thinks he, "my uncle
has got together?" He bows graciously to the honest Colonel, who asks him
to take wine. He is so insufferably affable, that every man near him
would like to give him a beating.
All the time of the dinner the host was challenging everybody to drink
wine, in his honest old-fashioned way, and Mr. Binnie seconding the chief
entertainer. Such was the way in England and Scotland when they were
young men. And when Binnie, asking Sir Brian, receives for reply from the
Baronet--"Thank you, no, my dear sir. I have exceeded already, positively
exceeded," the poor discomfited gentleman hardly knows whither to apply:
but, luckily, Tom Norris, the first mate, comes to his rescue, and cries
out, "Mr.


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