'I have a word or two to say to you.' 'I will not intrude upon your conference another moment,' said Mr Chester with inconceivable politeness.

'May it be satisfactory to you both! God bless you!' So saying, and bestowing upon the locksmith a most refulgent smile, he left them.
'A deplorably constituted creature, that rugged person,' he said, as he walked along the street; 'he is an atrocity that carries its own punishment along with it--a bear that gnaws himself.

And here is one of the inestimable advantages of having a perfect command over one's inclinations.

I have been tempted in these two short interviews, to draw upon that fellow, fifty times.

Five men in six would have yielded to the impulse.