"What's her grandfather to me, that I should give his grandchild three pounds, when any other child in the village would have leaped out of her skin to have her face upon my sketch-book and five shillings in her pocket?
Hang her grandfather!" They were now in the main road.

The Cobbler seated himself on a lonely milestone, and looked first at one of the faces before him, then at the other; that of Lionel seemed to attract him the most, and in speaking it was Lionel whom he addressed.
"Young master," he said, "it is now just four years ago, when Mr.Rugge, coming here, as he and his troop had done at fair-time ever sin' I can mind of, brought with him the man you have seen to-night, William Waife; I calls him Gentleman Waife.

However that man fell into sick straits, how he came to join sich a caravan, would puzzle most heads.

It puzzles Joe Spruce, uncommon; it don't puzzle me." "Why ?" asked Vance.
"Cos of Saturn!" "Satan ?" "Saturn,--dead agin his Second and Tenth House, I'll swear.

Lord of Ascendant, mayhap; in combustion of the Sun,--who knows ?" "You're not an astrologer ?" said Vance, suspiciously, edging off.
"Bit of it; no offence." "What does it signify ?" said Lionel, impatiently; "go on.