"But, I say, don't you think there's rather too much about scenery in yours?
There's very little of that in _Nicholas Nickleby_, or poetry either." "No; that struck me as one of the weak points of _Nicholas Nickleby_," said I.
"I thought it was settled the hero was to be in it from the first ?" said Harry, falling back on another line of defence.
"So he is.

I shall say in the next chapter that he was in the room underneath all the time," said I, rather testily.
"Oh, well," said Harry, "of course if you think yours is the best, you'd better stick it in.

I'm out of it, if you're going in for poetry." "You're not obliged to do any poetry," said I.

"Thanks.

I shouldn't try unless I was sure of writing something that wasn't doggerel," said Harry.