How did you find out?
You asked, I suppose ?" "No, along at first I inquired into their plans, in a general way, and they said they were going to be here a week, and make trips round about; but toward the end of the interview, when I said you and I would tour around with them with pleasure, and offered to bring you over and introduce you, they hesitated a little, and asked if you were from the same establishment that I was.

I said you were, and then they said they had changed their mind and considered it necessary to start at once and visit a sick relative in Siberia." "Ah, me, you struck the summit! You struck the loftiest altitude of stupidity that human effort has ever reached.

You shall have a monument of jackasses' skulls as high as the Strasburg spire if you die before I do.

They wanted to know I was from the same 'establishment' that you hailed from, did they?
What did they mean by 'establishment' ?" "I don't know; it never occurred to me to ask." "Well I know.

They meant an asylum--an IDIOT asylum, do you understand?
So they DO think there's a pair of us, after all.