"SHE has the best one," he continued, nodding at his wife with a pleasant after-dinner absence of circumlocution.

I could only reply, as if we were in fact sitting over our wine, that this didn't prevent his own from being very good; which led him in turn to make answer: "We thought that if you ever have to do people like us we might be something like it.

SHE particularly--for a lady in a book, you know." I was so amused by them that, to get more of it, I did my best to take their point of view; and though it was an embarrassment to find myself appraising physically, as if they were animals on hire or useful blacks, a pair whom I should have expected to meet only in one of the relations in which criticism is tacit, I looked at Mrs.Monarch judicially enough to be able to exclaim after a moment with conviction: "Oh yes, a lady in a book!" She was singularly like a bad illustration.
"We'll stand up, if you like," said the Major; and he raised himself before me with a really grand air.
I could take his measure at a glance--he was six feet two and a perfect gentleman.

It would have paid any club in process of formation and in want of a stamp to engage him at a salary to stand in the principal window.

What struck me at once was that in coming to me they had rather missed their vocation; they could surely have been turned to better account for advertising purposes.