"They say he's totally ruined," said Mr. Langorel the surgeon, to Mr. Quitch the lawyer.

Let it be rumoured that the match was broken off, and it might not be very long before Tolpeden Park suffered the outrages alluded to by Mr. Quitch.

“This world will not believe a man repents, And this wise world of ours is mainly right For seldom does a man repent, and use Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch Of blood and nature wholly out of him, And make all clean, and plant himself afresh.”

Other enemies, like the smaller weeds, he could overcome, but injustice, that quitch grass of life, was what stung him to fury.

The lesser ones he could sweep away at one stroke, but that quitch grass was more difficult to conquer.