This the drunken old chap, in a pair of list slippers and a nightcap, wot had offered--it afterwards come out--to make a hole in the water for a quartern of rum stood aforehand, and kept to his word for the first and last time in his life.

They pretty well papers the room, you see; but I know 'em all.

I'm scholar enough!' He waved the light over the whole, as if to typify the light of his scholarly intelligence, and then put it down on the table and stood behind it looking intently at his visitors.

He had the special peculiarity of some birds of prey, that when he knitted his brow, his ruffled crest stood highest.
'You did not find all these yourself; did you ?' asked Eugene.
To which the bird of prey slowly rejoined, 'And what might YOUR name be, now ?' 'This is my friend,' Mortimer Lightwood interposed; 'Mr Eugene Wrayburn.' 'Mr Eugene Wrayburn, is it?
And what might Mr Eugene Wrayburn have asked of me ?' 'I asked you, simply, if you found all these yourself ?' 'I answer you, simply, most on 'em.' 'Do you suppose there has been much violence and robbery, beforehand, among these cases ?' 'I don't suppose at all about it,' returned Gaffer.

'I ain't one of the supposing sort.