Mr.Chalk, sitting open-mouthed, was regarding him with the fascinated gaze of a rabbit before a boa-constrictor.

Captain Bowers was listening with an appearance of interest which in more favourable circumstances would have been very flattering.
"You said," cried Mrs.Chalk--"you said to my husband: 'The fair Emily is yours.'" [Illustration: "You said to my husband:'The fair Emily is yours.'"] "So I did," said Brisket, anxiously--"so I did.

And what I say I stick to.

When I said that the--that Emily was his, I meant it.

I don't say things I don't mean.