“Never!”
“I never knew that the White Hart was a low Public-House,” said the witness indignantly.
“Never mind what you know, Sir. Did you or did you not get him from there?” thundered the Serjeant.
“Of course I did.”
“Of course you did. Then what’s the use of all this juggling. It does you no good with My Lord and the Jury. I tell you plainly, Mr. Pickwick, we mean to have all out of you. Now Sir, was this man of yours an experienced valet?”
“Certainly not.”
“He had, of course, some training in his profession in other families?”
“Not that I know of.”
“Not that you know of. Do you dare to persist in that, Sir?”