"I do like 'em a bit noisy and silly," he admitted.
"That sort is so--so GEMUTHLICH, as the Germans say." "Who's the man you delivered over to old Patsy Raymond?
I see he's still fast to her." "Handsome, isn't he ?" "Of a sort." "It's Craig--the Honorable Joshua Craig--Assistant TO the Attorney-General.

He's from Minnesota.

He's the real thing.

But you'd not like him." "He looks quite--tame, compared to what he was two years or so ago," said Rita, her voice as indolent as her slowly-moving eagle feathers.
"Oh, you've met him ?" "No--only saw him.

When I went West with the Burkes, Gus and the husband took me to a political meeting--one of those silly, stuffy gatherings where some blatant politician bellows out a lot of lies, and a crowd of badly-dressed people listen and swallow and yelp.