"Nothing else would tear him away from the city." I meditated.
"Our arrangements for dinner," I continued, "fall in very well with his coming.

I suppose the guest-rooms are all ready, but you had best go see to that, and meanwhile turn this fellow over to Ofatulenus." Agathemer nodded.

The pleasantest of his many good qualities was that whatever he might be asked to do he carried out without comment or objection.

Nothing was too big or too small for him.

If he were asked to arrange for an interview with the Emperor or to attend to the creasing of a toga he was equally painstaking and obliging.