Here, they know me as The Lodger.
Will you have that?
or will you have an appropriate nick-name?
I come of a mixed breed; and I'm likely, after what has happened to me, to turn out a worthless fellow.

Call me The Cur.

Oh, you needn't start! that's as accurate a description of me as any other.

What's _your_ name ?" I wrote it for him.

His face darkened when he found out who I was.
"Young, personally attractive, and a great landowner," he said.