'What is your profession or occupation?'
'I have already told you.'
'Are you married?'
'Really, monsieur, your questions border on the impertinent.'
'You are an Englishman?'
'I am glad to say I am.'
'But well acquaint with Lester Squarr, I doubt not, where all the foreign canaille do congregate?'
'You are an insolent fool.'
'We shall teach you to play tricks in Belgium, however.'
'D—n Belgium!' exclaimed Goring, losing patience utterly at last. 'I wish it was a few inches under the sea, instead of being a few inches out of it.'