_Kellner_, some tea for the gentleman--English tea with what you call bread and butter.

So! And for me--" Selingman paused for a moment and drew a deep sigh of resignation--"some coffee." "Very kind of you, I'm sure," Norgate murmured.
Herr Selingman beamed.
"It is a great pleasure," he said, "but many times I wonder why you Englishmen, so clever, so world-conquering, do not take the trouble to make yourselves with the languages of other nations familiar.

It means but a little study.

Now you, perhaps, are in business ?" "Not exactly," Norgate replied grimly.

"To tell you the truth, at the present moment I have no occupation." "No occupation!" Herr Selingman paused in the act of conveying a huge portion of rusk to his mouth, and regarded his companion with wonder.
"So!" he repeated.