NORTH.
You needed not to say you were perfectly serious: for I suffer no man to be ironical on Me, Mr Buller. I am.
BULLER.
Such a change since we came to Cladich! Seward was equally shocked, with myself, at your looks on board the Steamer. So lean—so bent—so sallow—so haggard—in a word—so aged!
NORTH.
Were you shocked, Seward?
SEWARD.
Buller has such a blunt way with him that he often makes me blush. I was not shocked, my dear sir, but I was affected.
BULLER.
Turning to me, he said in a whisper, "What a wreck!"