"Say it, Guppy.

You mean it." "No-o-o! Left the Inn," Mr.Smallweed delicately suggests.
"Since you left the Inn, Jobling," says Mr.Guppy; "and I have mentioned to our mutual friend Smallweed a plan I have lately thought of proposing.

You know Snagsby the stationer ?" "I know there is such a stationer," returns Mr.Jobling.

"He was not ours, and I am not acquainted with him." "He IS ours, Jobling, and I AM acquainted with him," Mr.Guppy retorts.

"Well, sir! I have lately become better acquainted with him through some accidental circumstances that have made me a visitor of his in private life.