If the linin' wasn't stuffed full of gun-waddin' it would be over my nose,' he observed, taking it off and adjusting the layer of wadding as he spoke.
'You should have stuck to Sir Harry,' observed Mr.Sponge.
'I did,' rejoined Watson.

'I did, I stuck to him to the last.

I'd have been with him now, only he couldn't get a manor at Boulogne, and a keeper was of no use without one.' 'What, he went to Boulogne, did he ?' observed Mr.Sponge.
'Aye, the more's the pity,' replied Watson.

'He was a gentleman, every inch of him,' he added, with a shake of the head and a sigh, as if recurring to more prosperous times.

'He was what a gentleman ought to be,' he continued, 'not one of your poor, pryin', inquisitive critturs, what's always fancyin' themselves cheated.