“I do not know. I cannot tell.”
“Small-pox, think?”
“I do not know, genteelmen—I do not know what he died of.”
“Measles, likely?”
“Maybe—maybe. I do not know—I think he die of something.”
“Parents living?”
“Im-possible!”
“Ah—which is the bust and which is the pedestal?”
“Santa Maria!—zis ze bust!—zis ze pedestal!”