The effect was instantaneous, and the smiles of welcome faded.

The minister shook hands gravely, and the ladies who had run forward with shoe bags and tidies turned and walked coldly away.
Eliph' Hewlitt smiled.
"Funny how that name makes a man unpopular, ain't it ?" he said, addressing the minister.

"But I ain't going to talk books in Kilo.

The landlord down at the hotel told me it was a bad time, so I'm going to pass it by.

Well, I guess we deserve all the blame we get.