I know it; I can see it.

He 's a corrective of Cudford, who is abhorrent to my soul.

To give you an instance, now, of what those old boys will do--I remember my father taking me, when I was quite a youngster, to a tavern he frequented, and we met one night just such an old fellow as this; and the waiter told us afterwards that he noticed me particularly.
He thought me a very remarkable boy--predicted great things.

For some reason or other my father never took me there again.

I remember our having a Welsh rarebit there for supper, and when the waiter last night mentioned a rarebit, 'gad he started up before me.