"Good--good!" The banker rose.

"I think you have made a very clever definition," said he.

"Half an hour--you recollect--good evening." "Stay," said Darvil; "you are the first man I have seen for many a year that I can take a fancy to.

Sit down--sit down, I say, and talk a bit, and we shall come to terms soon, I dare say;--that's right.

Lord! how I should like to have you on the roadside instead of within these four gimcrack walls.