"Why my dear sirs, I used to have to send home every month about half a dozen busted office-seeker constituents, and the fare was only $3 apiece, and I could stand it, but it would cost me over $100 a head to send them out here, and I'm no millionaire; therefore, as much as I regret it, I must insist on declining.

Them no pleasure-seeker counts among his opportunities, no foreigner visits as essential for his study of the English soul.

" The careless display of the butt of a revolver, while he gave this answer, left the pleasure-seeker master of the situation.