Meanwhile you must see he does not make a noise or become a nuisance." "All serene," replied Dig, who had already almost come to regard the new master as a sort of brother-in-law of his own; "he's a great protection against rats and thieves.

My mother gave him to me--didn't she, Smiley ?" Smiley was at that moment lying on his back all of a heap, with his limp legs lifted appealingly in the air, and too much occupied in gasping to vouchsafe any corroboration of his young master's depositions.
Railsford departed, leaving the whole question in an unsettled condition, and not altogether satisfied with himself.

He knew, the moment he was outside the door, what he ought to have said; but that was very little consolation to him.

Nor was it till he was back in his own room that he remembered he had not taken exception to the pistol.

Of course, having looked at it and said nothing, its owner would assume that he did not disapprove of it.