What answered he, eh?
Would I had been there to interrogate him! He should have declared how he became possessed of that old moth-eaten, blood-stained, monkish gown, or I would have unfrocked him, even if he had proved to be a skeleton.

But I interrupt you.

You have not told me what occurred at the interview ?" "There was no interview," replied Richard, gravely.
"No interview!" echoed Nicholas.

"S'blood, man!--but I must be careful, for Doctor Ormerod and Parson Dewhurst are within hearing, and may lecture me on the wantonness and profanity of swearing.

By Saint Gregory de Northbury!--no, that's an oath too, and, what is worse, a Popish oath.