text:  "Gentlemen " said Mr Clam "I'm here in search of information; will you have the kindness to tell me what we have all been fighting and quarrelling and whispering and threatening about for the last two hours? My esteemed and talented neighbour the author of 'Women's Dignity developed in Dialogues'"-- "May gang to the deevil " interposed Major M'Toddy--_abeat in malam crucem_ as a body may say--We've no time for havers _i prae sequar_ as a body may say