"Have you been with your wife ?" He stroked his moustache, gazing at me in apparent surprise.
"Nay, friend Benteen; you must be the very soul of innocence to make such hasty guess.

I rested beneath the same roof with her, so I was informed, yet she who spake thus regarding the plight of the Puritan chanced to be the fair Queen, Naladi." "Naladi?
But you speak no Spanish,--how could you hold converse with her ?" "There are always ways, if the lady be fair.

The hands, eyes, lips can all be made into messengers of speech.

But in this case she brought forth a black boy--a most mischievous imp--who managed to convey her words in my own tongue.

Still it was difficult to do justice in such a way to so charming a woman; much came to my lips which I hesitated to utter through the medium of that interpreter." I looked at him in speechless amazement at this revelation of his supreme conceit, his reckless vanity.