"Den more mens come from Circle City, and dey say no, das thees mans, Daveed Payne, come Dawson leel tam back."
"That responsibility does lie at the lowest level, as it is the lowest leel that enables the highest."
"The creatures who inhabit these dwellings and even their dark, wet cellars, and who live confined amidst all this filth and foul air -- which cannot be dissipated because of the surrounding lofty buildings -- must surely have sunk to the lowest leel of humanity."