I'm a man that knows his rights, and, knowing, always maintains them." "You cannot have the rooms, sir.

That is out of the question," said Mrs.Darlington, looking both distressed and indignant.
"And I tell you that I will have them!" replied Scragg, angrily.
"Peter! Peter! Don't act so," now interposed Mrs.Scragg.

"There's no use in it." "Ain't there, indeed?
We'll see.

Madam"-- he addressed Mrs.
Darlington--"will you be kind enough to inform the lady and gentleman who now occupy one of our rooms"-- "Mr.Scragg!" said Mrs.Darlington, in whose fainting heart his outrageous conduct had awakened something of the right spirit--"Mr.
Scragg, I wish you to understand, once for all, that the front room is taken and now occupied, and that you cannot have it." "Madam!" "It's no use for you to waste words, sir! What I say I mean.

I have other rooms in the house very nearly as good, and am willing to take you for something less in consideration of this disappointment.