I shall want you to prepare a speech about four minutes long, clean-cut and vigorous,--we'll decide later what that speech shall be about.

I've got it in mind to spring something in that convention just to show Thatcher that there are turns of the game he doesn't know yet.

I'm going to give you a part that will make 'em remember you for some time, Dan." Bassett's smile showed his strong sound teeth.

He rarely laughed, but he yielded now to the contagion of the humor he had aroused in Harwood.
"It's a big chance you're giving me to get into things," replied Harwood.

"I'll do my best." Then he added, in the glow of his complete surrender: "You've never asked me to do a dishonorable thing in the four years I've been with you.