"And he is a scamp?"
"If he's no relation of yours, yes, sah."
"Does he tipple?"
"Not zat I know, sah!"
"Steal?"
"No, sah!"
"Meddle with other people's affairs?"
"Yes, sah! zat is, every day he puts his disgwusting digits on my spotless cassimeres, and asks for money!"
"You of course grant his request?"
"Not I, sah! I feel always like touching the twip of me pwatent leather gaitaw just beneath the lowermost extreme of his spinal column, and elevating his dangling sup