I would ask you to help me as my best man, if I dare." "You do dare," said he.

"You're all a-fluster.

Go on; I'll get a parson--how'll Doctor Halford do ?--and I'd take care of the license for you if I could--Gad! sorry it's not my own!" "You are the finest fellow in the world, Jack.

I have only one thing more to ask"-- I pointed to the splintered glass upon the floor--"Don't get another." "Of course not, of course not!" he expostulated.

His voice was just a trifle thickened.