The younger man of the two shook his head with a smile.
"I don't believe you have any business at all," said he.
"Nor have I, if by business you mean some low handicraft.

It is brain work I mean, my boy; and that's what I do." "I don't doubt that a bit," answered the elder guest coaxingly.
"Come on! Tell us what it is," broke in the other.

"You don't expect us to take your word." "It is as easy as lying," replied Toto.

"Listen a bit, and you shall have the whole bag of tricks.

Suppose I saw Polyte steal a couple of pairs of boots from a trotter-case seller's stall----" Polyte interrupted the narrator, protesting so strongly that he would not commit such an act, that Tantaine perceived at once that some such trifling act of larceny weighed heavily on his conscience.
"You needn't kick up such a row," returned Toto.