I ordered everything in my department, and paid for it too; and never had a bill disputed or even commented on.

I might have charged for a ton of powder, and never had nothin' said.' 'Mr.Jawleyford's not likely to find his way to Boulogne, I suppose ?' observed Mr.Sponge.
'Not he!' exclaimed Watson, 'not he!--safe bird--_very_.' 'He's rich, I suppose ?' continued Sponge, with an air of indifference.
'Why, _I_ should say he was; though others say he's not,' replied Watson, cropping the old pony with the dog-whip, as it nearly fell on its nose.

'He can't fail to be rich, with all his property; though they're desperate hands for gaddin' about; always off to some waterin'-place or another, lookin' for husbands, I suppose.

I wonder,' he continued, 'that gentlemen can't settle at home, and amuse themselves with coursin' and shootin'.' Mr.
Watson, like many servants, thinking that the bulk of a gentleman's income should be spent in promoting the particular sport over which they preside.
With this and similar discourse, they beguiled the short distance between the station and the Court--a distance, however, that looked considerably greater after the flying rapidity of the rail.

But for these occasional returns to _terra firma_, people would begin to fancy themselves birds.
After rounding a large but gently swelling hill, over the summit of which the road, after the fashion of old roads, led, our traveller suddenly looked down upon the wide vale of Sniperdown, with Jawleyford Court glittering with a bright open aspect, on a fine, gradual elevation, above the broad, smoothly gliding river.