Did you ever hear of such a skunk ?" "He must have thought you a very simple and charming young Englishman," said I.
"You've done the same thing yourself!" he retorted indignantly.
"Pardon me," said I."If I do send a telegram in that loose way, I choose a humble and honest-looking porter and give him the exact fee for the telegram and a winning smile." "Rot!" said Dale, and turning to Lola--"He has demoralised the whole railway system of Europe with his tips.

I've seen him give a franc to the black greasy devil that bangs at the carriage wheels with a bit of iron.

He would give anybody anything." He had recovered his boyish pride in my ridiculous idiosyncracies, and was in process of illustrating again to Lola what a "splendid chap" I was.

Poor lad! If he only knew what a treacherous, traitorous, Machiavelli of a hero he had got.

For the moment I suffered from a nasty crick in the conscience.
"Wouldn't he, Adolphus, you celestial old blackguard ?" he laughed.