Charles Dickens

“ Jasper suggests.
"That's it, sir," returns Durdles, quite satisfied; "at which he takes aim. I took him in hand and gave him an object. What was he before? A destroyer. What work did he do? Nothing but destruction. What did he earn by it? Short terms in Cloisterham Jail. Not a person, not a piece of property not a winder, not a horse, nor a dog, nor a cat, nor a bird, nor a fowl, nor a pig, put what he stoned, for want of an enlightened object. ”

“ John Jasper invites the boy with a beck of his head to follow him (feeling it hopeless to drag him, or coax him) and crosses to the iron railing where the Stony (and stoned) One is profoundly meditating.
"Do you know this thing, this child?" asks Jasper, at a loss for a word that will define this thing.
"Deputy," says Durdles, with a nod.
"Is that it's—his—name?"
"Deputy," assents Durdles.
"I'm man-servant up at the Travellers' Twopenny in Gas Works Garding," this thing explains. "All us man-servants at Travellers Lodgings is named Deputy. ”

“ The Stony One replies, in a general way, All right. Everybody knows where to find Durdles, when he's wanted. Which, if not strictly true, is approximately so, if taken to express that Durdles may always be found in a state of vagabondage somewhere. ”

“ I make him out (so fur as I've made him out yet) to be one of them old 'uns with a crook. To judge from the size of the passages in the walls, and of the steps and doors, by which they come and went, them crooks must have been a good deal in the way of the old 'uns! ”