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These three young gentlemen, Mr. Stryver, exuding patronage of

the most offensive quality from every pore, had walked before him

like three sheep to the quiet corner in Soho, and had offered as

pupils to Lucie's husband: delicately saying "Halloa! here are

three lumps of bread-and-cheese towards your matrimonial picnic,

Darnay!" The polite rejection of the three lumps of

bread-and-cheese had quite bloated Mr. Stryver with indignation,

which he afterwards turned to account in the training of the

young gentlemen, by directing them to beware of the pride of

Beggars, like that tutor-fellow. He was also in the habit of

declaiming to Mrs. Stryver, over his full-bodied wine, on the

arts Mrs.