"It is as if I had been suddenly whipped up out of prosaic old England and transferred in an instant to some enchanted palace, some Eastern home of the Genii.

I could not have believed that there existed upon this earth such adaptation of means to an end, such complete mastery of every detail which may aid in stripping life of any of its petty worries." "I have something yet to show you," remarked Raffles Haw; "but we will rest here for a few minutes, for I wished to have a word with you.

How is the cigar ?" "Most excellent." "It was rolled in Louisiana in the old slavery days.

There is nothing made like them now.

The man who had them did not know their value.