‘Positively nothing!’
‘They’re twaddlers!’
‘Drivellers!’
‘Noodles!’
‘Boobies!’
‘Nincompoops!’
‘Humbugs!’
It may be as well to observe here that these compliments were bestowed upon the party at large, who had been liberally carousing Maretzo and Kay, without expecting the latter to pay a cent of the reckoning, and consequently they may be considered fully entitled to the elegant epithets that were lavishly bestowed upon them.
‘You and I are the fellows to do it, Maretzo,’ said Kay.
‘Positively the very fellows,’ coincided his friend.