'It would be the devil and all if I was spotted.' 'They are perfectly in their place,' returned Pitman, with scant attention.

'But is my disguise equally effective?
There is nothing more likely than that I should meet some of my patrons.' 'O, nobody could tell you without your beard,' said Michael.

'All you have to do is to remember to speak slow; you speak through your nose already.' 'I only hope the young man won't be at home,' sighed Pitman.
'And I only hope he'll be alone,' returned the lawyer.

'It will save a precious sight of manoeuvring.' And sure enough, when they had knocked at the door, Gideon admitted them in person to a room, warmed by a moderate fire, framed nearly to the roof in works connected with the bench of British Themis, and offering, except in one particular, eloquent testimony to the legal zeal of the proprietor.

The one particular was the chimney-piece, which displayed a varied assortment of pipes, tobacco, cigar-boxes, and yellow-backed French novels.
'Mr Forsyth, I believe ?' It was Michael who thus opened the engagement.
'We have come to trouble you with a piece of business.