A decree of the English Court of Chancery is not entitled to more respect in Scotland than a decree (interlocutor) of the Scottish Court of Session in England.
Explanations which continually remind one's interlocutor of one's ignorance are a great damper upon the easy flow of talk.
The interlocutor greeted the audience and engaged in comical repartee with the end men, named Tambo and Bones.
Contrary to Storra's hope, however, the conversation between Flinx and his new visitor was going very well indeed. ¶Experienced in the ways of political intrigue, if not interspecies interlocution, Treappyn had settled himself into a comfortable squat.