It's my opinion he'll give you fellows one of the hardest jobs you ever tackled; and, unless I'm greatly mistaken, he's got brains enough and backing enough to carry through whatever he undertakes." "Say! I don't know as I exactly catch your meaning; but that's one thing I wanted to ask you.

What do you think of that young man, anyway?
I can't make him out." "I noticed that you had not assigned him any place in that theory of yours." "No; he's been a mystery to me, a perfect mystery; but this evening a new idea has occurred to me, and I would like your judgment on it.
Has he ever reminded you of any one?
That is, can you recall any one whom he resembles ?" "Well, I should say there was a marked resemblance.

I've often wondered where your eyes were that you had not seen it." "You have noticed it, then?
Well, so have I; but it has puzzled me, for, though the look was familiar, I was unable to recall whose it was until to-night.

Now that I have recalled it, that, taken in connection with some other things I have observed, has led me to wonder whether it were possible that he is a son of Hugh Mainwaring's, of whose existence no one in this country has ever known." "Hugh Mainwaring! I don't understand you." "Why, you just acknowledged you had noticed the resemblance between them!" "I beg your pardon; but you must recollect that I have never seen Hugh Mainwaring living, and have little idea how he looked." "By George! that's a fact.

Well, then, who in the dickens do you think he resembles ?" The coachman's step was heard at that instant on the stairs, and Merrick's reply was necessarily brief.
"Laying aside expression, take feature for feature, and you have the face of Mrs.LaGrange.".