I am willing you should say that, were my present fortune less, my gratitude would be proportionately less felt--it is very likely--though the original gift remain the same, one rupee and no more.

You are entitled to think of any man as grateful in proportion to the gift, so long as you allow the gratitude at all." He made this speech in a perfectly natural and unconcerned way, as if he were contemplating the case of another person.
"Seriously, Isaacs, I would not do so for the world.

I believe you were as grateful twelve years ago, when you were poor, as you are now that you are rich." Isaacs was silent, but a look of great gentleness crossed his face.

There was at times something almost angelic in the perfect kindness of his eyes.
"To return," I said at last, "to the subject from which we started, the tigers.

If we are really going, we must leave here the day after to-morrow morning--indeed, why not to-morrow ?" "No; to-morrow we are to play that game of polo, which I am looking forward to with pleasure.