Of course you play poker ?" "Oh, I say," cried Newman, with energy, "you are not going to lock me up in a club and stick me down at a card-table! I haven't come all this way for that." "What the deuce HAVE you come for! You were glad enough to play poker in St.Louis, I recollect, when you cleaned me out." "I have come to see Europe, to get the best out of it I can.

I want to see all the great things, and do what the clever people do." "The clever people?
Much obliged.

You set me down as a blockhead, then ?" Newman was sitting sidewise in his chair, with his elbow on the back and his head leaning on his hand.

Without moving he looked a while at his companion with his dry, guarded, half-inscrutable, and yet altogether good-natured smile.

"Introduce me to your wife!" he said at last.
Tristram bounced about in his chair.