Being here, I'll wait if you make haste, and then I can testify on his behalf, if it should ever be necessary, that all was fair and right.

If you will hold the candle for Mr.Snagsby, my friend, he'll soon see whether there is anything to help you." "In the first place, here's an old portmanteau, sir," says Snagsby.
Ah, to be sure, so there is! Mr.Tulkinghorn does not appear to have seen it before, though he is standing so close to it, and though there is very little else, heaven knows.
The marine-store merchant holds the light, and the law-stationer conducts the search.

The surgeon leans against the corner of the chimney-piece; Miss Flite peeps and trembles just within the door.
The apt old scholar of the old school, with his dull black breeches tied with ribbons at the knees, his large black waistcoat, his long-sleeved black coat, and his wisp of limp white neckerchief tied in the bow the peerage knows so well, stands in exactly the same place and attitude.
There are some worthless articles of clothing in the old portmanteau; there is a bundle of pawnbrokers' duplicates, those turnpike tickets on the road of poverty; there is a crumpled paper, smelling of opium, on which are scrawled rough memoranda--as, took, such a day, so many grains; took, such another day, so many more--begun some time ago, as if with the intention of being regularly continued, but soon left off.

There are a few dirty scraps of newspapers, all referring to coroners' inquests; there is nothing else.

They search the cupboard and the drawer of the ink-splashed table.