'Are you unwell, Brother Stiggins?' whispered Mr. Anthony Humm.
'I am all right, Sir,' replied Mr. Stiggins, in a tone in which ferocity was blended with an extreme thickness of utterance; 'I am all right, Sir.'
'Oh, very well,' rejoined Mr. Anthony Humm,retreating a few paces.
'I believe no man here has ventured to say that I am not all right, Sir?' said Mr. Stiggins.