Consider what an enormous interest may have to depend on those words." "Why, what the devil could I say?
I don't know their names; never even heard them.

But the eldest is the eldest, all the world over.
Perhaps I ought to say the youngest, seeing that I am only a railway contractor." Scatcherd began to think that the doctor might now as well go away and leave him to the society of Winterbones and the brandy; but, much as our friend had before expressed himself in a hurry, he now seemed inclined to move very leisurely.

He sat there by the bedside, resting his hands on his knees and gazing unconsciously at the counterpane.
At last he gave a deep sigh, and then he said, "Scatcherd, you must be more particular in this.

If I am to have anything to do with it, you must, indeed, be more explicit." "Why, how the deuce can I be more explicit?
Isn't her eldest living child plain enough, whether he be Jack, or she be Gill ?" "What did your lawyer say to this, Scatcherd ?" "Lawyer! You don't suppose I let my lawyer know what I was putting.
No; I got the form and the paper, and all that from him, and had him here, in one room, while Winterbones and I did it in another.

It's all right enough.