It was music very pleasant to hear after the somewhat shrill cachinnation of the Misses Bostock of South Shields.

I was so pleased that I gave half a franc to a pestilential Arab shoeblack.
"That was nice of you," she said.
"It was the act of an imbecile," I retorted.

"I have now rendered it impossible for me to enter the town again.

How is Dale ?" She started.

"He's well.