Yet this morning here are no such things as these said names to be found in the list! What do you think of that ?" "And what do you think," interrupted the aggrieved subordinate, "of his having the impudence to bully me for being careless in chalking the doors, when he was too drunk to do it himself?
too drunk to know his right hand from his left! If I wasn't the best-natured man in the world, I should report him to the head jailer." "Quite right of you to excuse him, and quite wrong of him to bully you," said Lomaque, persuasively.

"Take my advice," he continued, confidentially, to the hunchback, "and don't trust too implicitly to that slippery memory of yours, after our little drinking bout yesterday.
You could not really have read their names at the grate, you know, or of course they would be down on the list.

As for the waiting-room at the tribunal, a word in your ear: chief agents of police know strange secrets.

The president of the court condemns and pardons in public; but there is somebody else, with the power of ten thousand presidents, who now and then condemns and pardons in private.

You can guess who.