If you spring your relationship upon the public, it will create an enormous sensation--it will set the place on fire with curiosity.

They'll dig up everything they can about you--everything they can about him.

Oh, Paul, don't you see.
"It's up agin a man, sonny," said Barney Bill, limping towards them, "it's up agin a candidate, you understand, him not being a Fenian or a Irish patriot, that he's been in gaol.

Penal servitude ain't a nice state of life to be reminded of, sonny.

Whereas if you leaves things as they is, nobody's going to ask no questions." "That's my point," said Silas Finn.
Paul looked from one to the other, darkly.