Mr.Butler says he is safe and honest--calls him the Rock, Peter, and says that upon him any banking institution can well be built." "I don't doubt it--from the little I saw of him and the less I heard from him; but I don't think so much of banks as I did.

You don't mind my speaking my mind this way, dear ?" "No, no; it is most interesting." "Yes," Martin went on heartily, "I'm no more than a barbarian getting my first impressions of civilization.

Such impressions must be entertainingly novel to the civilized person." "What did you think of my cousins ?" Ruth queried.
"I liked them better than the other women.

There's plenty of fun in them along with paucity of pretence." "Then you did like the other women ?" He shook his head.
"That social-settlement woman is no more than a sociological poll-parrot.
I swear, if you winnowed her out between the stars, like Tomlinson, there would be found in her not one original thought.

As for the portrait-painter, she was a positive bore.