“How did you come here?”
“I come her,” he retorted, “on my legs. I had my box brought alongside me in a barrow.”
“Are you here for good?”
“I ain’t here for harm, young master, I suppose?”
…”Then you have left the forge?” I said.
“Do this look like a forge?”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 29. Pip is surprised to find Orlick working as a porter at Miss Havisham’s house. When Pip asks him a simple question, Orlick shows his rudeness and sullen, smark-alecky nature in response.