I should have more pleasure in staying with you, to comfort you, as well as I could
If all these people came in a body and spat at me, what would you do, Jane Turn them out of the room, sir, if I could. He half smiled. But if I were to go to them, and they only looked at me coldly, and whispered sneeringly amongst each other, and then dropped off and left me one by one, what then Would you go with them I rather think not, sir: I should have more pleasure in staying with you. To comfort me Yes, sir, to comfort you, as well as I could. And if they laid you under a ban for adhering to me I, probably, should know nothing about their ban; and if I did, I should care nothing about it. Then, you could dare censure for my sake I could dare it for the sake of any friend who deserved my adherence; as you, I am sure, do.
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