Guster having never left the end of the passage, the whole household are assembled.
"The simple question is, sir," says the constable, "whether you know this boy.

He says you do." Mrs.Snagsby, from her elevation, instantly cries out, "No he don't!" "My lit-tle woman!" says Mr.Snagsby, looking up the staircase.

"My love, permit me! Pray have a moment's patience, my dear.

I do know something of this lad, and in what I know of him, I can't say that there's any harm; perhaps on the contrary, constable." To whom the law-stationer relates his Joful and woeful experience, suppressing the half-crown fact.
"Well!" says the constable, "so far, it seems, he had grounds for what he said.

When I took him into custody up in Holborn, he said you knew him.