Just pegs away year after year--he was here long before I came--supporting his family, storing his mind with all sorts of rare knowledge.

Do you know he's one of the most delightful men you will meet in a day's journey ?" "No--never knew anything of the kind.

Thought he was just plain tailor." "And an intimate friend of many of the English actors who come over here ?" continued Peter.
"I never heard a word about it" I answered meekly; Peter's acquaintances being too varied and too numerous for me to keep track of.

That he should have a tailor among them as learned and wise as Solomon, and with friends all over the globe, was quite to be expected.
"Well, he is," answered Peter.

"They always hunt him up the first thing they do.