Having at length effervesced, Malkin began to exchange question and answer with something of the calm needful for mutual intelligibility.
'And how do you get on with old Runcorn ?' 'As well as can be expected where there is not a single subject of agreement,' Earwaker replied.

'I have hopes of reducing our circulation.' 'What the deuce do you mean ?' 'In other words, of improving the paper.

Runcorn is strong on the side of blackguardism.

We had a great fight the other day over a leader offered by Kenyon,--a true effusion of the political gutter-snipe.

I refused point-blank to let it go in; Runcorn swore that, if I did not, _I_ should go _out_.