When you have been here as long as I have, and if you ever get as much sense as I have, which is doubtful, you may be less positive in your ideas, if you can call them ideas." "That is one for me," Wilson said good humoredly, while the others laughed.
"Well, I have never seen them, Doctor, except those fellows who come around to the veranda, and I have seen conjurers at home do ever so much better tricks than they." "What do you think of them, Mr.Bathurst ?" Isobel asked.

"I suppose you have seen some of the better sort ?" "I do not know what to think of them, Miss Hannay.

I used to be rather of Wilson's opinion, but I have seen things since that I could not account for at all.

There was a man here two or three months back who astounded me." "Mrs.Hunter said that the girls had had no opportunity of seeing a good conjurer since they came out, Mr.Bathurst.I suppose they did know this man you are speaking of being here ?" "He was only here for a few hours, Miss Hannay.

I had happened to meet him before, and he gave me a private performance, which was quite different to anything I have ever seen, though I had often heard of the feats he had performed.