'Yes, I shouldn't wonder if they was convenient,'replied the gentleman, 'seeing that a few people live there, pretty snug. That's the Fair, that is.'
'My friend,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'you don't really mean to say that human beings live down in those wretched dungeons?'
'Don't I?' replied Mr. Roker, with indignant astonishment; 'why shouldn't I?'
'Live!—live down there!' exclaimed Mr. Pickwick.
'Live down there! Yes, and die down there, too, very often!' replied Mr. Roker; 'and what of that? Who's got to say anything agin it? Live down there! Yes, and a wery good place it is to live in, ain't it?'