"I'll give him a month's notice this very night." "Don't," I said, "for then you'll oblige him to take service with Barung, where he would be most dangerous.

Look here, Orme, to drop chaff, this is a pretty mess." "Why?
What's wrong about it, Doctor ?" he asked indignantly.

"Of course, she's a Jew of some diluted sort or other, and I'm a Christian; but those things adapt themselves.

Of course, too, she's my superior, but after all hers is a strictly local rank, and in Europe we should be on much the same footing.

As for her being an Eastern, what does that matter?
Surely it is not an objection which should have weight with _you_.