"That's so."
"It is useless to point out to you that We did not ask you to waste your time in Rome——"
"I should have been surprised if Ye had have."
"And that We did not force you, or induce you, to neglect your business——"
"Nae! Ye never thought I'd have dared to face Ye as I have."
"And that We were in no wise concerned with your expulsion from the Liblab Fellowship——"
"But Ye were! If Ye'd have had the civility to give the deputation a satisfactory answer, or even to have satisfied the fellow-shippers afterwards, or to have made it all right with me so as I could have settled them, then there wouldn't have been all this trouble and unpleasantness, my Lord."
"Some men are gifted with an abnormal capability for making the greatest possible fools of themselves. For the credit of the human race, it must be said that indecent exhibitions of this kind are rare. Mr. Sant, does it not occur to you that you are engaging in a very foolish and a very dirty business?"
"Dirty business Yersel'! Who're Ye talking to? Ma hands are as clean as Yours any day. Who owes twenty pound notes to this lady I'm brought with me?"