Again he hesitated, and then put his pipe in his pocket.
It was now that I approached him with the Arcadia Mixture.

I seldom recommend the Arcadia to men whom I do not know intimately, lest in the after-years I should find them unworthy of it.

But just as Aladdin doubtless rubbed his lamp at times for show, there were occasions when I was ostentatiously liberal.

If, after trying the Arcadia, the lucky smoker to whom I presented it did not start or seize my hand, or otherwise show that something exquisite had come into his life, I at once forgot his name and his existence.

I approached Gilray, then, and without a word handed him my pouch, while the others drew nearer.
Nothing was to be heard but the water oozing out and in beneath the house-boat.