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Updated: May 19, 2025
Do you reelly think a hop-o'-me-thumb like that can be a Scotland Yard man? It's my belief he's a himpostor." It had not dawned on Trenholme that Furneaux's complete fund of information regarding the sketches had been obtained so recently. He imagined that Police Constable Farrow and Gamekeeper Bates had supplied details, so his reply cheered Eliza.
"That little hop-o'-me-thumb thinks he's smart, dam smart," he communed angrily, "but I've taken a line of me own, an' I'll stick to it, though the Yard sends down twenty men!"
"Is it digging out or carvin' in y'are?" he asked, puffing into his beard. Pierre looked up contemptuously, but did not reply to the insinuation, for he never saw an insult unless he intended to avenge it; and he would not quarrel with Macavoy. "What are you going to give?" he asked. "Aw, give what to who, hop-o'-me-thumb?"
"Is it digging out or carvin' in y'are?" he asked, puffing into his beard. Pierre looked up contemptuously, but did not reply to the insinuation, for he never saw an insult unless he intended to avenge it; and he would not quarrel with Macavoy. "What are you going to give?" he asked. "Aw, give what to who, hop-o'-me-thumb?"
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