Your first visit here, sir ?' 'My first.' 'You could hardly have been here since your boyhood without my knowledge.

It very seldom happens that anybody--of any pretensions-any pretensions--comes here without being presented to me.' 'As many as forty or fifty in a day have been introduced to my brother,' said Frederick, faintly lighting up with a ray of pride.
'Yes!' the Father of the Marshalsea assented.

'We have even exceeded that number.

On a fine Sunday in term time, it is quite a Levee--quite a Levee.

Amy, my dear, I have been trying half the day to remember the name of the gentleman from Camberwell who was introduced to me last Christmas week by that agreeable coal-merchant who was remanded for six months.' 'I don't remember his name, father.' 'Frederick, do you remember his name ?' Frederick doubted if he had ever heard it.