At length he said: 'I hope you exonerate me in another sense ?' 'How do you mean ?' asked Martin.
'I hope you acquit me of intending or foreseeing the termination of our visit.

But I scarcely need ask you that.' 'Scarcely indeed,' said Martin.

'I am the more beholden to you for your kindness, when I find what kind of stuff the good citizens here are made of.' 'I reckon,' his friend returned, 'that they are made of pretty much the same stuff as other folks, if they would but own it, and not set up on false pretences.' 'In good faith, that's true,' said Martin.
'I dare say,' resumed his friend, 'you might have such a scene as that in an English comedy, and not detect any gross improbability or anomaly in the matter of it ?' 'Yes, indeed!' 'Doubtless it is more ridiculous here than anywhere else,' said his companion; 'but our professions are to blame for that.

So far as I myself am concerned, I may add that I was perfectly aware from the first that you came over in the steerage, for I had seen the list of passengers, and knew it did not comprise your name.' 'I feel more obliged to you than before,' said Martin.
'Norris is a very good fellow in his way,' observed Mr Bevan.
'Is he ?' said Martin drily.
'Oh yes! there are a hundred good points about him.

If you or anybody else addressed him as another order of being, and sued to him IN FORMA PAUPERIS, he would be all kindness and consideration.' 'I needn't have travelled three thousand miles from home to find such a character as THAT,' said Martin.