He was insufferably rude to you.' 'And you, Huish ?' said the captain.
Huish sat cleaning a favourite briar root; he scarce looked up from that engrossing task.

'Don't ast me what I think of him!' he said.

'There's a day comin', I pray Gawd, when I can tell it him myself.' 'Huish means the same as what I do,' said Davis.

'When that man came stepping around, and saying "Look here, I'm Attwater"-- and you knew it was so, by God!--I sized him right straight up.

Here's the real article, I said, and I don't like it; here's the real, first-rate, copper-bottomed aristocrat.