"You see, miss, I have been handcuffed and taken into custody and brought here. I am a marked and disgraced man, and here I am. My shooting gallery is rummaged, high and low, by Bucket; such property as I have--'tis small--is turned this way and that till it don't know itself; and (as aforesaid) here I am! I don't particular complain of that. Though I am in these present quarters through no immediately preceding fault of mine, I can very well understand that if I hadn't gone into the vagabond way in my youth, this wouldn't have happened. It HAS happened. Then comes the question how to meet it."
He rubbed his swarthy forehead for a moment with a good-humoured look and said apologetically, "I am such a short-winded talker that I must think a bit." Having thought a bit, he looked up again and resumed.

"You see," he said, "I have been handcuffed and brought here. I am a marked and disgraced man. My shooting gallery is rummaged, high and low, by Bucket; such property as I have is turned this way and that; and here I am! I don't particular complain of that. Though it is through no immediate fault of mine, I can understand that if I hadn't gone into the vagabond way in my youth, this wouldn't have happened. It has happened: then comes the question how to meet it."
He rubbed his forehead for a moment and thought a bit; then he resumed.
