It would be a pity to go to London and not buy the morning Standard." "O!" said he, "you don't realise the conveniences of this carpet.

You see this pocket?
you've only got to stick your hand in, and you pull it out filled with sovereigns." 'Double-eagles, wasn't iff inquired the captain.
'That was what it was!' cried Herrick.

'I thought they seemed unusually big, and I remember now I had to go to the money-changers at Charing Cross and get English silver.' 'O, you went there ?' said the clerk.

'Wot did you do?
Bet you had a B.
and S.!' 'Well, you see, it was just as the old boy said--like the cut of a whip,' said Herrick.

'The one minute I was here on the beach at three in the morning, the next I was in front of the Golden Cross at midday.
At first I was dazzled, and covered my eyes, and there didn't seem the smallest change; the roar of the Strand and the roar of the reef were like the same: hark to it now, and you can hear the cabs and buses rolling and the streets resound! And then at last I could look about, and there was the old place, and no mistake! With the statues in the square, and St Martin's-in-the-Fields, and the bobbies, and the sparrows, and the hacks; and I can't tell you what I felt like.