Quotation from: The Professor

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

"Good evening, indeed! yes, but you would have passed me without
recognition if I had not been so civil as to speak first."

"I did not know you."

"A famous excuse! You ought to have known me; I knew you, though
you were going ahead like a steam-engine. Are the police after
you?"

"It wouldn't be worth their while; I'm not of consequence enough
to attract them.