I once thought that everybody who went to universities, or who sat in the high places in society, was just as brilliant and intelligent as he." "He's an exception," she answered.
"I should say so.

Whom do you want me to talk to now ?--Oh, say, bring me up against that cashier-fellow." Martin talked for fifteen minutes with him, nor could Ruth have wished better behavior on her lover's part.

Not once did his eyes flash nor his cheeks flush, while the calmness and poise with which he talked surprised her.

But in Martin's estimation the whole tribe of bank cashiers fell a few hundred per cent, and for the rest of the evening he labored under the impression that bank cashiers and talkers of platitudes were synonymous phrases.

The army officer he found good-natured and simple, a healthy, wholesome young fellow, content to occupy the place in life into which birth and luck had flung him.