Before I invented this saw, a good workman would have been a day over that; but now YOU can do it in half an hour, when you are master of the instrument.

And now I'll show you honest work." He took one of the knobs and examined it; then sawed off a piece, and worked on the rest so cunningly with his various cutters, that it grew into a human face toward their very eyes.

He even indicated Jael Dence's little flat cap by a means at once simple and ingenious.

All the time he was working the women's eyes literally absorbed him; only those of Grace flashed vivid curiosity, Jael's open orbs were fixed with admiration and awe upon his supernatural cleverness.
He now drew some more arabesques on the remaining part of the board, and told Miss Carden she must follow those outlines with the saw, and he would examine her work on Monday morning.

He then went off with a quick, independent air, as one whose every minute was gold.
"If you please, miss," said Jael, "is he a real working man, or only a gentleman as makes it his pastime ?" "A gentleman! What an idea! Of course he is a working man.