You should have seen the way Mr.Ram Spudd took it.

He made the deepest salaam and said, 'Isis guard you, beautiful lady.' Such perfect courtesy, and yet with the air of scorning the money.

As I passed out I couldn't help slipping another dollar into his hand, and he took it as if utterly unaware of it, and muttered, 'Osiris keep you, O flower of women!' And as I got into the motor I gave him another dollar and he said, 'Osis and Osiris both prolong your existence, O lily of the ricefield,' and after he had said it he stood beside the door of the motor and waited without moving till I left.

He had such a strange, rapt look, as if he were still expecting something!" "How exquisite!" murmured Miss Snagg.

It was her business in life to murmur such things as this for Mrs.Rasselyer-Brown.