"But never mind that! Go on, as if I was still open to conviction.

You think Miss Rachel is not to be believed on her word; and you say we shall hear of the Moonstone again.
Back your opinion, Sergeant," I concluded, in an airy way.

"Back your opinion." Instead of taking offence, Sergeant Cuff seized my hand, and shook it till my fingers ached again.
"I declare to heaven," says this strange officer solemnly, "I would take to domestic service to-morrow, Mr.Betteredge, if I had a chance of being employed along with You! To say you are as transparent as a child, sir, is to pay the children a compliment which nine out of ten of them don't deserve.

There! there! we won't begin to dispute again.

You shall have it out of me on easier terms than that.