Cheyne had met him for five minutes a few days before, and between the two there was entire understanding.
"Well, Mr.Cheyne, and what d'you think of our city ?--Yes, madam, you can sit anywhere you please .-- You have this kind of thing out West, I presume ?" "Yes, but we aren't as old as you." "That's so, of course.

You ought to have been at the exercises when we celebrated our two hundred and fiftieth birthday.

I tell you, Mr.
Cheyne, the old city did herself credit." "So I heard.

It pays, too.

What's the matter with the town that it don't have a first-class hotel, though ?" "Right over there to the left, Pedro.