Chapter 26: And the Dregs of the Same

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​⁠Mr. Anthony Clare stayed behind to help our hero home to bed. His effort to achieve sobriety had completely exhausted such faculties as remained after so many quarts of Burgundy, and he babbled to his companion foolish threats and impotent defiance in such an incoherent voice that I doubt his enemy, had he been present, would scarcely have been able to discover common sense in any one of his remar