Questions from Great Expectations

There are some confusing passages and words in this book, but one of the most unclear to me was when the sergeant and Uncle Pumblechook are talking and they say, "With you. Hob and nob," returned the sergeant. "The top of mine to the foot of yours-the foot of yours to the top of mine. Ring once, ring twice-the best tune on the musical glasses! Your health. May you live a thousand years, and never be a worse judge of the right sort than you are at the present moment of your life! (31, chapter 5)"

I think that towards the end they are talking about staying in good health and living a long time, but the rest just seems like gibberish. They were drunk so they could just be rambling, but I think that Charles Dickens wouldn't put that in there just because. What are they talking about and what does it mean? Its so confusing!

Group Essay Collaboration

My paragraph has mostly stayed the same, I added the missing commentary to my last concrete detail but that is about it besides minor editing. The commentary talks about how beauty in a relationship should not be the main concept of it. It is elaborating on the other commentary and it is a little bit repetitive but we can talk about it on Monday. I can not think of a conclusion for my paragraph though, because the next paragraph is about Algernon and the topic for that is marriage, and to tie mine in is difficult without sounding redundant. What should I do? Also for the conclution paragraph I think that it is great, but if we could somehow magically incorporate how all of our ideas make the characters lives a work of art...if that is possible? If you think that I need to add or take something out of my paragraph from what you heard on Friday please tell me.