"You won't mind me having another?"
"Fifty if you please, so that I'm not forced to join you."
"Forced! It's liberty 'all here, and you can do as you please. Only when a fellow will take a drop with me he's better company."
"Then I'm d–––– bad company, and you'd better get somebody else to be jolly with. To tell you the truth, Sexty, I suit you better at business than at this sort of thing. I'm like Shylock, you know."
"I don't know about Shylock, but I'm blessed if I think you suit me very well at anything. I'm putting up with a deal of ill-usage, and when I try to be happy with you, you won't drink, and you tell me about Shylock. He was a Jew, wasn't he?"
"That is the general idea."
"Then you ain't very much like him, for they're a sort of people that always have money about 'em."
"How do you suppose he made his money to begin with? What an ass you are!"
"That's true. I am. Ever since I began putting my name on the same bit of paper with yours I've been an ass."
"You'll have to be one a bit longer yet;—unless you mean to throw up everything. At this present moment you are six or seven thousand pounds richer than you were before you first met me."