10/16 Now I've took the liberty of coming here-- 'Won't you sit down ?' said Mr Carker, smiling. 'A man does get more way upon himself, perhaps, in his conversation, when he sits down. Won't you take a cheer yourself ?' 'No thank you,' said the Manager, standing, perhaps from the force of winter habit, with his back against the chimney-piece, and looking down upon the Captain with an eye in every tooth and gum. 'You have taken the liberty, you were going to say--though it's none--' 'Thank'ee kindly, my lad,' returned the Captain: 'of coming here, on account of my friend Wal'r. |