If you've any doubt about it, there's references I can give right here in Clarence that will satisfy you." Eliph' Hewlitt coughed gently behind his hand, and stroked his whiskers, as he looked up at the indignant Miss Briggs.

He did not want to sell her a book' it would place him in her mind once, and, probably, for all, as one of the tribe of book agents, and nothing more.

Yet he could not offend her.

He might compromise by giving her a copy, but the chapter on "Courtship--How to Win the Affections," distinctly advised this as a later act.

First it was necessary to become well acquainted; then it was advisable to proceed to give small presents, books or flowers or sweets being particularly mentioned, and Eliph' Hewlitt would never have thought of doing first the thing Jarby's Encyclopedia advised doing second.