But I thought it would interest you." "Thanks." The tone of the big man in the arm-chair was not dry.

Karl Steinmetz knew better than to indulge in that pastime.

Dryness is apt to parch the fount of expansiveness.
De Chauxville's attention was apparently caught by an illustration in a weekly paper lying open on the table near to him.

Your shifty man likes something to look at.

He did not speak for some moments.