I will tell Durdles to be careful of it.

He will mind what _I_ say.

How is it at present endangered ?' he inquires, looking about him with magnificent patronage.
'Only by my making a moonlight expedition with Durdles among the tombs, vaults, towers, and ruins,' returns Jasper.

'You remember suggesting, when you brought us together, that, as a lover of the picturesque, it might be worth my while ?' 'I remember!' replies the auctioneer.

And the solemn idiot really believes that he does remember.
'Profiting by your hint,' pursues Jasper, 'I have had some day-rambles with the extraordinary old fellow, and we are to make a moonlight hole-and-corner exploration to-night.' 'And here he is,' says the Dean.
Durdles with his dinner-bundle in his hand, is indeed beheld slouching towards them.