I'll bet that some say it will be worth $50 an acre." I began to wonder why these Americans talk so much.

I had observed it everywhere.

Here I was come on a matter of business, of my father's estate; and the lawyer with whom I was forced to deal was talking to me interminably of things that had nothing to do with it.

But I was young and strange, and not very strong; and it did not occur to me to show impatience with him.

And so he went on.
"This man was fine to look at, prepossessing and engaging.