Those were his degrees of affection.

Honest and brave and a good fellow though, I bet.
The sale languished.

There were so many lots of one particular sort of dried orchid that buyers could not be found for them at a reasonable price, and many had to be bought in.

At length the genial Mr.Primrose in the rostrum addressed the audience.
"Gentlemen," he said, "I quite understand that you didn't come here to-day to buy a rather poor lot of Cattleya Mossiae.

You came to buy, or to bid for, or to see sold the most wonderful Odontoglossum that has ever been flowered in this country, the property of a famous firm of importers whom I congratulate upon their good fortune in having obtained such a gem.