You feel that, don't you ?" said he, earnestly.
I did _not_ feel it my duty to set myself up for a scarecrow amidst this beauty-loving people, but I saw I had got across some ineradicable prejudice, and that it wouldn't do to quarrel with my new friend.

So I merely said, "O certainly, certainly." "Well," said he, pleasantly, "you may as well see what the inside of these booths is like: think of something you want." Said I: "Could I get some tobacco and a pipe ?" "Of course," said he; "what was I thinking of, not asking you before?
Well, Bob is always telling me that we non-smokers are a selfish lot, and I'm afraid he is right.

But come along; here is a place just handy." Therewith he drew rein and jumped down, and I followed.

A very handsome woman, splendidly clad in figured silk, was slowly passing by, looking into the windows as she went.

To her quoth Dick: "Maiden, would you kindly hold our horse while we go in for a little ?" She nodded to us with a kind smile, and fell to patting the horse with her pretty hand.
"What a beautiful creature!" said I to Dick as we entered.
"What, old Greylocks ?" said he, with a sly grin.
"No, no," said I; "Goldylocks,--the lady." "Well, so she is," said he.