- Montague Tigg: Perhaps you would rather not lend Slyme five shillings?
- Seth Pecksniff: I would much rather not.
- Montague Tigg: Would you have the same objection to lending me five shillings?
- Seth Pecksniff: I would.
- Montague Tigg: Not even half a crown?
- Seth Pecksniff: Not even half a crown.
- Montague Tigg: Why, then, we come to the ridiculously small amount of eighteen pence.
- Seth Pecksniff: That would be equally objectionable.
- Montague Tigg: [clasping Pecksniff's hand warmly] Then let me tell you, Mr. Pecksniff... you are the most remarkable and consistent man that ever I have met, and I hope for the honor of your future acquaintance.