What the dickens is it to him?
One can understand Bearside, and Scrobby too.

When a fellow has something to get, one does understand it.

But why an old fellow like that should come down from the moon to pay ever so much money for such a man as Goarly, is what I don't understand." "Notoriety," said the doctor.
"He evidently don't know that Nickem has got round Goarly," said the landlord..