It's more in your own interest that I'm speaking now.

Can you go through with it ?" Paul, with his unconquerable instinct for the dramatic, hauled out the little cornelian heart at the end of his watch-chain.

"My dear fellow," said he.

"Do you see that?
It was given to me for failing to win a race at a Sunday-school treat, when I was a very little boy.

I didn't possess coat or stockings, and my toes came out through the ends of my boots, and in order to keep the thing safe I knotted it up in the tail of my shirt, which waggled out of the seat of my breeches.