Instead of a friend in a post-chaise or in a Tilbury, to exchange good things with, and vary the same stale topics over again, for once let me have a truce with impertinence.

这时既没有与马车上的友人相互絮叨佳肴美味之烦——往往这一陈旧题目可以变着样地喋喋不休，我乃能暂免冒失之举。