The noise and motion in the streets fatigued his brain at first, but he was not surprised, or curious, or pleased, or irritated.

He was asked if he remembered this, or that.

'O yes,' he said, 'quite well--why not ?' Sometimes he turned his head, and looked, with earnest gaze and outstretched neck, after some stranger in the crowd, until he disappeared from sight; but, to the question why he did this, he answered not a word.
He was sitting in his easy chair one day, and Nell upon a stool beside him, when a man outside the door inquired if he might enter.

'Yes,' he said without emotion, 'it was Quilp, he knew.

Quilp was master there.
Of course he might come in.' And so he did.
'I'm glad to see you well again at last, neighbour,' said the dwarf, sitting down opposite him.