They are rotten, useless--whoo! He blew an imaginary feather up into the air to demonstrate the extreme fragility of the house in question.
"You're raving, Baumser," said Major Clutterbuck excitedly.

"Why, man, their names are above suspicion.

They are looked upon as the soundest concern in the City." "Dat may be; dat may be," the German answered stolidly.

"Vat I know, I know, and vat I say I say." "And how d'ye know it?
D'ye tell me that you know lore about it than the men on 'Change and the firms that do business with them ?" "I know vat I know, and I say vat I say," the other repeated.
"Dat tobacco-man Burger is a rogue.

Dere is five-and-thirty in the hundred of water in this canaster tobacco, and one must be for ever relighting." "And you won't tell me where you heard this of the Girdlestones ?" "It vould be no good to you.