They don't pass but for nine cents, as you're old enough to know.

Keep twenty-five cents for your dinner--you'll get most for the money at the Barker House--an' bring me back another quarter.

Better go an' get your victuals now--it's gone twelve--while they're hot." Elmore took his instructions without visible demur; and then, as Lorne had not seen fit to detach himself, performed the ceremony of introduction.

As he performed it he drew one foot back and bowed himself, which seemed obscurely to facilitate it.

The suspicion faded out of Mrs Crow's tired old sharp eyes under the formula, and she said she was pleased to make our friend's acquaintance.
"Mr Murchison's changed some since the old days at the Collegiate," Elmore explained, "but he ain't any different under his coat.