Read it." For the first time during the scene in the carpenter's shop, a certain pomposity swelled the gentleman's tone.

His delivery of the card appeared to act on him like the flourish of a trumpet before great men.
"Van Diemen Smith," he proclaimed himself for the assistance of Ned Crummins in his task; the latter's look of sad concern on receiving the card seeming to declare an unscholarly conscience.
An anxious feminine voice was heard close beside Mr.Van Diemen Smith.
"Oh, papa, has there been an accident?
Are you hurt ?" "Not a bit, Netty; not a bit.

Walked into a big looking-glass in the dark, that's all.

A matter of eight or ten pound, and that won't stump us.

But these are what I call queer doings in Old England, when you can't take a step in the dark, on the seashore without plunging bang into a glass.