Are you quite sure you are wide awake ?" "What do you want ?" was the cross question, given by way of answer.
"What do you come bothering me for at such a rate, all night, I want to know ?" "Keep civil, friend, we wear swords," said Hubert, touching, with dignity, the hilt of the little dagger he carried; "we only want to ask you a few questions.

First, do you see that house over yonder ?" "Oh! I see it!" said the man gruffly; "I am not blind!" "Well who was the last person you saw come out of that house ?" "I don't know who they was!" still more gruffly.

"I ain't got the pleasure of their acquaintance!" "Did you see a young lady come out of it lately ?" "Did I see a young lady ?" burst out the watchman, in a high key of aggrieved expostulation.

"How many more times this blessed night am I to be asked about that young lady.

First and foremost, there comes two young men, which this here is one of them, and they bring out the young lady and have her hauled away in the dead-cart; then comes along another and wants to know all the particulars, and by the time he gets properly away, somebody else comes and brings her back like a drowned rat.