"I'd enlist myself, by--; but I'm a broken old man--ruined by that damned scoundrel--and by a parcel of swindling thieves in this country whom I made, sir, and who are rolling in their carriages now," he added, with a break in his voice.

"I'd enlist myself - but I'm a broken old man - ruined by that damned scoundrel and by thieves in this country whom I made, sir!"
