Never mind him.

You go on and tell me all you know about the--the--" "The vampyre!" "Ah! I always forget the names of strange fish.

I suppose, after all, it's something of the mermaid order ?" "That I cannot say, sir; but certainly the story, in all its painful particulars, has made a great sensation all over the country." "Indeed!" "Yes, sir.

You shall hear how it occurred.

It appears that one night Miss Flora Bannersworth, a young lady of great beauty, and respected and admired by all who knew her was visited by a strange being who came in at the window." "My eye," said Jack, "it waren't me, I wish it had a been." "So petrified by fear was she, that she had only time to creep half out of the bed, and to utter one cry of alarm, when the strange visitor seized her in his grasp." "D--n my pig tail," said Jack, "what a squall there must have been, to be sure." "Do you see this bottle ?" roared the admiral.
"To be sure, I does; I think as it's time I seed another." "You scoundrel, I'll make you feel it against that d----d stupid head of yours, if you interrupt this gentleman again." "Don't be violent." "Well, as I was saying," continued the attorney, "she did, by great good fortune, manage to scream, which had the effect of alarming the whole house.