To every girl they passed they yelled out, 'Oh, you little jam tart!' and every old lady they addressed as 'Mar.' The noisiest and the most vulgar of the four was the one with the concertina.
"I followed them on to the pier, and then, hurrying past, waited for them under a gas-lamp.

When the man with the concertina came into the light and I saw him clearly I started.

From the face I could have sworn it was Joseph; but everything else about him rendered such an assumption impossible.

Putting aside the time and the place, and forgetting his behaviour, his companions, and his instrument, what remained was sufficient to make the suggestion absurd.

Joseph was always clean shaven; this youth had a smudgy moustache and a pair of incipient red whiskers.