I might go out without my beans one day, and find myself assailed by all manner of amazing inclinations." "My dear young man," the professor said earnestly, "let me point out to you that this is a wonderful position in which you have been placed.
You ought to be most proud and grateful.

Any trifling inconveniences which may result should be, I venture to say, utterly ignored by you.
Now come, let me ask you a question.

Are you feeling absolutely your--how shall I call it--revised self to-day ?" "Absolutely, thank Heaven!" Burton declared, fervently.
The professor nodded his head.

All the time his eyes were roving about Burton's person, as though he were longing to make a minute study of his anatomy.
"It would be most interesting," he said, "to trace the commencement of any change in your condition.

I am here with a proposition, Mr.Burton.I appeal to you in the name of science as well as--er--hospitality.