I have learned more in your house than I taught.

I beg to return the check with thanks.
Price of the bust, five hundred guineas.
"Yours obediently, "HENRY LITTLE." Grace colored up, and her eyes sparkled.

"That young man wants humbling." "I don't see that, really.

He is very civil, and I presume this five hundred guineas is just a polite way of saying that he means to keep it.
Wants it for an advertisement, eh ?" Grace smiled and bit her lip.

"Oh, what a man of business you are!" And a little while after the tears came into her eyes.