She longed to have Manuel for a butler; so silently and easily did he comport himself among the frail glassware and dainty silver.

Tom Platt remembered great days on the Ohio and the manners of foreign potentates who dined with the officers; and Long Jack, being Irish, supplied the small talk till all were at their ease.
In the "We're Here's" cabin the fathers took stock of each other behind their cigars.

Cheyne knew well enough when he dealt with a man to whom he could not offer money; equally well he knew that no money could pay for what Disko had done.

He kept his own counsel and waited for an opening.
"I hevn't done anything to your boy or fer your boy excep' make him work a piece an' learn him how to handle the hog-yoke," said Disko.

"He has twice my boy's head for figgers." "By the way," Cheyne answered casually, "what d'you calculate to make of your boy ?" Disko removed his cigar and waved it comprehensively round the cabin.
"Dan's jest plain boy, an' he don't allow me to do any of his thinkin'.
He'll hev this able little packet when I'm laid by.