"And nobody can't, Mr. Vavasor. I done my work true as steel, and there ain't another man about the place as could have done half as much. You ask Mr. Scruby else. Mr. Scruby knows, if ere a man in London does. I tell you what it is, Mr. Vavasor, them Chelsea fellows, who lives mostly down by the river, ain't like your Maryboners or Finsburyites. It wants something of a man to manage them. Don't it Mr. Scruby?"
"It wants something of a man to manage any of them as far as my experience goes," said Mr. Scruby.

"And nobody can't, Mr. Vavasor. I done my work true as steel, and there ain't another man as could have done half as much. You ask Mr. Scruby. I tell you what it is, Mr. Vavasor, them Chelsea fellows down by the river ain't like your Maryboners or Finsburyites. It wants a man to manage them. Don't it, Mr. Scruby?"
"It wants a man to manage any of them," said Mr. Scruby.
