You know the sort of funny man who rattles on as if he were wound up for the evening, and afterwards you cannot remember a word he has said.

It's all very well for a while, but you soon get sick of it.

Besides, this particular specimen drinks like a whale.' 'He looks as if he did.' 'Last night he had been talking a good deal, and most of the men who had been there had gone off.

You know there's only one room at the Mutton Chop, with a long table, and if a man takes the floor there's no escape.

I had come in about one o'clock to get something to eat, and Feist poured out a steady stream of stories as usual, though only one or two listened to him.