What would you say was the real damage done to them two wheat-fields by his lordship's game last autumn?
You saw the crops as they were growing, and you know what came off the land." "I wouldn't like to say." "But if you were on your oath, Mr.Twentyman?
Was there more than seven-and-sixpence an acre lost ?" "No, nor five shillings," said Runciman.
"I think Goarly ought to take his lordship's offer--if you mean that," said Twentyman.
Then there was a pause, during which more drink was brought in, and pipes were re-lighted.

Everybody wished that Mr.Masters might be got to say that he would not take the case, but there was a delicacy about asking him.

"If I remember right he was in Rufford Gaol once," said Runciman.
"He was let out on bail and then the matter was hushed up somehow," said the attorney.
"It was something about a woman," continued Runciman.

"I know that on that occasion he came out an awful scoundrel." "Don't you remember," asked Botsey, "how he used to walk up and down the covert-side with a gun, two years ago, swearing he would shoot the fox if he broke over his land ?" "I heard him say it, Botsey," said Twentyman.
"It wouldn't have been the first fox he's murdered," said the doctor.
"Not by many," said the landlord.
"You remember that old woman near my place ?" said Stubbings.

"It was he that put her up to tell all them lies about her turkeys.