Just now he is arranging my speeches--fitting them to the local requirements of the several audiences I shall be called upon to address.

He knows mankind like a book.

I shall never give the wrong speech to the wrong people while he is with me." "Do you like him ?--the man, I mean, not his work." "Well--yes.

He is very good company, or would have been if, in the week he has been in the house, I had been in better mood to enjoy him.

He's a capital story-teller." "He has been here a week ?" "Yes, or almost." "Came on last Tuesday, didn't he ?" "Yes, I believe that was the day." "Toward afternoon ?" "No; he came early; soon after breakfast, in fact." "Does your wife like him ?" His Honor gave a start, flushed (I can sometimes see a great deal even while very busily occupied) and answered without anger, but with a good deal of pride: "I doubt if Mrs.Packard more than knows of his presence.