She never saw Old Jack again with fourteen shillings, but she got even
with Harry Chatswood, and--- But I'll tell you about that some other
time. Time for a last smoke before we turn in.




MATESHIP IN SHAKESPEARE'S ROME



How we do misquote sayings, or misunderstand them when quoted rightly!
For instance, we "wait for something to turn up, like Micawber,"
careless or ignorant of the fact that Micawber worked harder than all
the rest put together for the leading characters' sakes; he was the
chief or only instrument in straightening out of the sadly mixed state
of things--and he held his tongue till the time came. Moreover--and
"_Put a pin in that spot, young man_," as Dr "Yark" used to
say--when there came a turn in the tide of the affairs of Micawber, he
took it at the flood, and it led on to fortune. He became a
hardworking settler, a pioneer--a respected early citizen and
magistrate in this bright young Commonwealth of ours, my masters!

And, by the way, and strictly between you and me, I have a shrewd
suspicion that Uriah Heep wasn't the only cad in David Copperfield.

Brutus, the originator of the saying, took the tide at the flood, and
it led him and his friends on to death, or--well, perhaps, under the
circumstances, it was all the same to Brutus and his old mate,