Come, who are you ?" "Nobody that you know." "What is your name ?" "Cecil Rhodes." "No, I don't remember hearing the name before.

Now then--just for curiosity's sake--what has sent you to me on this extraordinary errand ?" "The intention to make a hundred thousand pounds for you and as much for myself within the next sixty days." "Well, well, well.

It is the most extraordinary idea that--sit down--you interest me.

And somehow you--well, you fascinate me; I think that that is about the word.

And it isn't your proposition--no, that doesn't fascinate me; it's something else, I don't quite know what; something that's born in you and oozes out of you, I suppose.