So a pretty fight I had, for half-a-dozen meetings, till I called in my lord; and, sir, he came down by the next express, like a trump, all the way from town, and gave them such a piece of his mind--was going to have the Board of Health down, and turn on the Government tap, commissioners and all, and cost 'em hundreds: till the fellows shook in their shoes;--and so I conquered, and here we are, as clean as a nut,--and a fig for the cholera!--except down in Water-lane, which I don't know what to do with; for if tradesmen will run up houses on spec in a water-meadow, who can stop them?
There ought to be a law for it, say I; but I say a good many things in the twelve months that nobody minds.

But, my dear boy, if one man in a town has pluck and money, he may do it.

It'll cost him a few: I've had to pay the main part myself, after all: but I suppose God will make it up to a man somehow.

That's old Mark's faith, at least.

Now I want to talk to you about yourself.