"Thank you, I think I will. I hate being under obligations to any man, particularly a friend. And now, mon ami, what are we going to do next? I have a sort of hazy idea that we did not make ourselves as popular as we might have done yesterday."
"I think you managed to openly insult nine-tenths of the population, if that's what you mean."
"Very likely. It's the effect of a public school education, you know. But to return to my question, what are we going to do next?"
"Directly civilization gets up I'm going into the township."
"In search of breakfast?"
"No; in search of employment."
"The deuce! I must indeed have been drunk yesterday not to have noticed this change coming over you. And pray what do you want to work for?"
"Because I have made up my mind to have done with this sort of life; because I want to save myself while there's time; because I want to be able to look the world in the face again. If you really are so anxious to know, that's why."
"You remind me of our old friend the village blacksmith. Hadn't he some ambition that way, eh?
"'He looked the whole world in the face,
For he owed not any man!'