That would about finish you up.

If you want him, you'd better go and look for him.

I don't know whether every snob in the place has come up or not." And he departed in chase of a friend whom he had just sighted.
This was depressing.

Not that I believed what he said about Tempest.
But I had hoped that my acquaintance with my old schoolmate would redound to my own dignity, whereas it seemed to do nothing of the kind.
Presently I encountered a very small boy, of chirpy aspect, whom I thought I might safely accost.
"I say," said I, "which is Mr Sharpe's house ?" "Over there," said he, pointing to an ivy-covered house at some little distance higher up the street.

Then, regarding me attentively, he added, "I say, you'll get in a jolly row if he sees you in that get-up." "Oh," said I, feeling that the youngster was entitled to an explanation, "I'm an exhibitioner." "A who?
All I know is he's down on chaps playing the fool.