Well, set it out, set it out." "It seems, Mr.Jackson, that _The Judge_ has refused not only our article, but also the advertisement of the company.

I don't know much about this side of the affair myself, but Sir Robert asked me if I would come round and see if things couldn't be arranged." "You mean that the man sent you to try and work on me because he knew that I used to be intimate with your family.

Well, it is a poor errand and will have a poor end.

You can't--no one on earth can, while I sit in this chair, not even my proprietors." There was silence broken at last by Alan, who remarked awkwardly: "If that is so, I must not take up your time any longer." "I said that I would give you a quarter of an hour, and you have only been here four minutes.

Now, Alan Vernon, tell me as your father's old friend, why you have gone to herd with these gilded swine ?" There was something so earnest about the man's question that it did not even occur to his visitor to resent its roughness.
"Of course it is not original," he answered, "but I had this idea about flooding the Desert; I spent a furlough up there a few years ago and employed my time in making some rough surveys.