‘Capital!’
‘Did you ever see such furniture? It beats your rooms at Malta.’
‘I never saw anything more complete in my life.’
‘What plate!’ ‘Miraculous!’ ‘And, believe me, we shall have the best dinner in town.’
‘Well, he has given me an appetite,’ said Ferdinand. ‘But who is he?’
‘Why, by business he is what is called a conveyancer; that is to say, he is a lawyer by inspiration.’
‘He is a wonderful man,’ said Ferdinand. ‘He must be very rich.’
‘Yes; Sharpe must be worth his quarter of a million. And he has made it in such a deuced short time!’
‘Why, he is not much older than we are!’
‘Ten years ago that man was a prizefighter,’ said Lord Catchimwhocan.