"I did."
"Upon what grounds?"
"Because of his dyspeptic habits."
"Did they not almost amount to monomania?"
"I considered that at times they did."
"Was he not very splenetic?"
"Very."
"I ask you, if he has not, in the neighbourhood of Blackheath, the character of being very litigious?"
"He is very unpopular."
"He quarrels with everybody?"