Well, you'd a been quite surprised to see how that heathen took on! He declared--what was the word he used ?"--he turned to Chandler.
"He said that each of these things, with the exception of the casts, mind you--queer to say, he left them out--exuded evil, that was the word he used! Exuded--squeezed out it means.

He said that being here made him feel very bad.

And twasn't all nonsense either.
He turned quite green under his yellow skin, and we had to shove him out quick.

He didn't feel better till he'd got right to the other end of the passage!" "There now! Who'd ever think of that ?" said Bunting.

"I should say that man 'ud got something on his conscience, wouldn't you ?" "Well, I needn't stay now," said Joe's good-natured friend.