He condescended to make no reply, but crossed the passage and carried the attorney off with him.
"You've heard what that American gentleman has been about, Mr.
Masters ?" asked the landlord.
"I'm told he's been with Bearside." "And has offered to pay his bill for him if he'll carry on the business for Goarly.

Whoever heard the like of that ?" "What sort of a man is he ?" asked the doctor.
"A great man in his own country everybody says," answered Runciman.
"I wish he'd stayed there.

He comes over here and thinks he understands everything just as though he had lived here all his life.
Did you say gin cold, Larry;--and rum for you, Mr.Masters ?" Then the landlord gave the orders to the girl who had answered the bell.
"But they say he's actually going to Lord Rufford's," said young Botsey who would have given one of his fingers to be asked to the lord's house.
"They are all going from Bragton," said Runciman.
"The young squire is going to ride one of my horses," said Harry Stubbings.
"That'll be an easy three pounds in your pockets, Harry," said the doctor.

In answer to which Harry remarked that he took all that as it came, the heavies and lights together, and that there was not much change to be got out of three sovereigns when some gentlemen had had a horse out for the day,--particularly when a gentleman didn't pay perhaps for twelve months.
"The whole party is going," continued the landlord.

"How he is to have the cheek to go into his Lordship's house after what he is doing is more than I can understand." "What business is it of his ?" said Larry angrily.