Of course, I could obtain them in no other way than by courting them and gaining their goodwill." Mr.Bruteman and Mr.Chandler made some remarks unfit for repetition, but which were greeted with shouts of laughter.

After much dodging and doubling on the financial question, Fitzgerald agreed to pay two thousand five hundred dollars, if all his demands were complied with.
The papers were drawn and signed with all due formality.

He clasped them in his pocket-book, and walked off with an elastic step, saying, "Now for Nassau!".