"You had the cholera very bad down there, I hear ?" "Oh, sharp, but short," said Tom, who disliked any subject which brought Grace to his mind.
"Any on my lord's estate with the queer name ?" "Not a case.

We stopped the devil out there, thanks to his lordship." "So did we here.

We were very near in for it, though, I fancy .-- At least, I chose to fancy so--thought it a good opportunity to clean Whitbury once for all." "It's just like you.

Well ?" "Well, I offered the Town-council to drain the whole town at my own expense, if they'd let me have the sewage.

And that only made things worse; for as soon as the beggars found out the sewage was worth anything, they were down on me, as if I wanted to do them--I, Mark Armsworth!--and would sooner let half the town rot with an epidemic, than have reason to fancy I'd made any money out of them.