"Don't I sufficiently spare you ?" "Thank you, thank you," said Vanderbank.
"Besides, it's not for nothing." "Of course not!" the young man returned, though with a look of noting the next moment a certain awkwardness in his concurrence.

"But don't spare me now." "I don't mean to." Mr.Longdon had his back to the table again, on which he rested with each hand on the rim.

"I don't mean to," he repeated.
His victim gave a laugh that betrayed at least the drop of a tension.
"Yet I don't quite see what you can do to me." "It's just what for some time past I've been trying to think." "And at last you've discovered ?" "Well--it has finally glimmered out a little in this extraordinary place." Vanderbank frankly wondered.

"In consequence of anything particular that has happened ?" Mr.Longdon had a pause.

"For an old idiot who notices as much as I something particular's always happening.