The governor declined the cigars graciously, ignored the hoped-for pleasure of another meeting, and trusted that it might fall to his lot to visit Australia some day.
Thereupon the bookmaker insisted on the aide-de-camp accepting the cigar-case, and gave him his visiting-card.

The aide-de-camp lost nothing by his good-humoured acceptance, if he smoked, because, as I knew, the cigars were very good indeed.

Bookmakers, gamblers and Jews are good judges of tobacco.

And the governor's party lost nothing in dignity because, as the traps wheeled away, they gave a polite little cheer for Mrs.Falchion.I, at first, was fearful how Belle Treherne would regard the gaucheries of the bookmaker, but I saw that he was rather an object of interest to her than otherwise; for he was certainly amusing.
As we drove through Aden, a Somauli lad ran from the door of a house, and handed up a letter to the driver of my trap.

It bore my name, and was handed over to me.