The other little packets, whatever they may be, are objects of curiosity, perhaps, rather than of importance.

They will keep till we have more leisure." "We have taken up a great deal of your time, Sir, I am sure," said the Major, finding that he could take no more.

"We ought to be, and we are, most grateful." "Well," the banker answered, as we began to move, "such things do not happen every day.

But there is no friend like an old friend, Erema, as I mean to call you now.

I was to have been your godfather; but I fear that you never have been baptized." "What!" cried the Major, staring at us both.