"It must be for the beautiful primary hint altogether." His interlocutor began, with a shake of the eyeglass, to shift and sidle again, as if distinctly excited by the subject.

But it was as if his very excitement made the poor gentleman a trifle coy.

"Are there no nice ones now ?" "Oh yes, there must be lots.

In fact I know quantities." This had the effect of pulling the stranger up.

"Ah 'quantities'! There it is." "Yes," said Mitchy, "fancy the 'lady' in her millions.