Won't you sit down?
It is very fatiguing, this heat." Charley was entirely himself again.

His words concerning Billy Wantage might have been either an impeachment of Billy's character and, by deduction, praise of his own, or it may have been the insufferable egoism of the fop, well used to imitators.

The veil between the two, which for one sacred moment had seemed about to lift, was fallen now, leaded and weighted at the bottom.
"I suppose you would say the same about John Brown! It is disconcerting at least to think that we used to sit and listen to Mr.Brown as he waved his arms gracefully in his surplice and preached sentimental sermons.

I suppose you will say, what we have heard you say before, that you only asked questions.

Was that how you ruined the Rev.John Brown--and Billy ?" Charley was very thirsty, and because of that perhaps, his voice had an unusually dry tone as he replied: "I asked questions of John Brown; I answer them to Billy.