"He is extremely good for the circulation; I think I was never so warm in my life as when I talked with him; as physical exercise he is equal to bicycling.

The bridge man is coming to call, too.

I made him a diagram of Breadalbane Terrace, and a plan of the hall and staircase, on my dinner-card.

He was distinctly ungrateful; in fact, he remarked that he had been born in this very house, but would not trust himself to find his way upstairs with my plan as a guide.

He also said the American vocabulary was vastly amusing, so picturesque, unstudied, and fresh." "That was nice, surely," I interpolated.
"You know perfectly well that it was an insult." "Francesca is very like that young man," laughed Salemina, "who, whenever he engaged in controversy, seemed to take off his flesh and sit in his nerves." "I'm not supersensitive," replied Francesca, "but when one's vocabulary is called picturesque by a Britisher, one always knows he is thinking of cowboys and broncos.