Then, turning to the bewildered attorney, 'For you, sir,' he continued, 'if you have anything to say, be good enough to speak.

On the face of it, this is a dirty trick you have played me.' 'Trick ?' cried the attorney.
'Ay, trick, man.

But before I send for the constable--' 'The constable ?' shrieked Mr.Fishwick.Truth to tell, it had been his own idea to storm the splendours of the Castle Inn; and for certain reasons he had carried it in the teeth of his companions' remonstrances.
Now between the suddenness of the onslaught made on them, the strangeness of the surroundings, Sir George's inopportune arrival, and the scornful grins of the servants who thronged the doorway, he was cowed.

For a moment his wonted sharpness deserted him; he faltered and changed colour.

'I don't know what you mean,' he said.