Gilkison of the Boiler-fitters, when he arrived, proved to be a pleasant young man in spectacles who spoke with an educated voice and clearly belonged to a slightly different social scale.

Last came Tombs, the Cambridge 'professor, a lean youth with a sour mouth and eyes that reminded me of Launcelot Wake.
'Ye'll no be a mawgnate, Mr Brand, though ye come from South Africa,' said Mr Norie with a great guffaw.
'Not me.

I'm a working engineer,' I said.

'My father was from Scotland, and this is my first visit to my native country, as my friend Mr Amos was telling you.' The consumptive looked at me suspiciously.

'We've got two--three of the comrades here that the cawpitalist Government expelled from the Transvaal.