No, it wouldn't surprise me now if you was to tell me he 'ad a bit o' whisker.' 'Was the man red-faced ?' I roared, dwelling on each syllable.
'I don't think you need go for to get cross about it, Mr.Anne!' said he.
'I'm tellin' you every blessed thing I see! Red-faced?
Well, no, not as you would remark upon.' A dreadful calm fell upon me.
'Was he anywise pale ?' I asked.
'Well, it don't seem to me as though he were.

But I tell you truly, I didn't take much heed to that.' 'Did he look like a drinking man ?' 'Well, no.

If you please, sir, he looked more like an eating one.' 'Oh, he was stout, was he ?' 'No, sir.

I couldn't go so far as that.

No, he wasn't not to say _stout_.