“He seems resolved that I shall be a man of another world,” said Walter.
“Tell ye what, Sir—take my advice—your honour knows I be no fool—throw off them ere wrappers; let me put on scrap of plaister—pitch phials to devil—order out horses to-morrow, and when you’ve been in the air half an hour, won’t know yourself again!”
“Bunting! the horses out to-morrow?—faith, I don’t think I could walk across the room.”
“Just try, your honour.”
“Ah! I’m very weak, very weak—my dressing-gown and slippers—your arm, Bunting—well, upon my honour, I walk very stoutly, eh? I should not have thought this! leave go: why I really get on without your assistance!”
“Walk as well as ever you did.”
“Now I’m out of bed, I don’t think I shall go back again to it.”
“Would not, if I was your honour.”
“And after so much exercise, I really fancy I’ve a sort of an appetite.”
“Like a beefsteak?”