I see." "Names of distinction.

And all the others," Mitchy pursued, "that I don't count." "Oh you're the best." "I ?" "You're the best," Vanderbank simply repeated.

"It's at all events most extraordinary," he declared.

"But I make you out on the whole better than I do Mr.Longdon." "Ah aren't we very much the same--simple lovers of life?
That is of that finer essence of it which appeals to the consciousness--" "The consciousness ?"--his companion took up his hesitation.
"Well, enlarged and improved." The words had made on Mitchy's lips an image by which his friend appeared for a moment held.

"One doesn't really know quite what to say or to do." "Oh you must take it all quietly.