Verynonsensical to come at all! Why must she be scampering about thecountry, because her sister had a cold? Her hair, so untidy, so blowsy!""Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deepin mud, I am absolutely certain; and the gown which had been let down tohide it not doing its office.
By Jove!' said Perker, taking both hands out of his pockets, andstriking the knuckles of his right against the palm of his left,emphatically, 'those are the cleverest scamps I ever had anything to dowith!The sharpest practitioners I ever knew, Sir,' observed Lowten.