"Oh, Doctor, dear! I like to make you angry, because then your logic is so very outrageous.

You are like the man who pleaded not guilty of murder: first, because he hadn't done it; secondly, that he was drunk when he did it; and thirdly, that it was a case of mistaken identity." "Ha, ha!" laughed the Doctor, merrily, recovering his good humour in a moment.

"That's an Irish story for a thousand pounds.

There's nothing English about that.

Ha! ha!" They were presented to Frank as the new curate.