"There were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how abd we were - bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course." Chapter 1, p. 1

"We therefore decided that we would sleep out on fine nights; and hotel it, and inn it, and pub it, like respectable folks, when it was wet, or when we felt inclined for a change." Chapter 2, p. 18

"That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people." Chapter 3, p. 20

"I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it." Chapter...