I thought you might have known him." "Really, Tom, you are not complimentary.

You can't expect me to remember before I was born." "What! aren't you twenty-one ?" asked Tom, staring round at her.

"Go on; you're joking! No?
Why, you look twice the age! This chap, you know, would have been the heir if he'd lived.

There's a picture of him upstairs." "And he died, did he ?" "Rather; but old Hodder--know old Hodder ?" "Hush!" said his companion; "the speeches are beginning." "What a hung nuisance!" said Tom.
The oratorical interruption was a brief one.

The Duke of Somewhere, as the big man of the county, rose to propose the health of the heir of Maxfield.