Sir, I am very much obliged to you.

My hat might have gone to the devil, I believe, I was so delightfully occupied.

Such a thing never happened to me before, for I am very hard indeed to please; but I was reading, sir; I was reading.

Accept my thanks, sir; and I suppose I must leave off." "I thought that I heard a voice," said Frank, growing bold with fear that he should know no more, for the other was closing his book with great care, and committing it to a pouch buckled over his shoulder; "and I fear that I broke in upon a pleasant moment.

Perhaps I should have pleased you better if I had left this hat to drown." "I seem ungrateful," the stranger answered, with a sweet but melancholy smile, as he donned his hat and then lifted it gracefully to salute its rescuer; "but it is only because I have been carried far away from all thoughts of self, by the power of a much larger mind.