'I have been acquainted with you,' said Mr. Omer,after watching me for some minutes, during which I had not made much impression on the breakfast, for the black things destroyed my appetite, 'I have been acquainted with you a long time, my young friend.'
'Have you, sir?'
'All your life,' said Mr. Omer. 'I may say before it.I knew your father before you. He was five foot nine and a half, and he lays in five-and-twen-ty foot of ground.'
