He placed an envelope in Fenwick's hand, and then, pointing him to a chair at the table, he dictated a form of IOU, specifying that the debt was to be returned within a year, either in money or in the pictures agreed upon.
'Oh, no fine speeches, please, my boy--no fine speeches!' said Morrison, as the artist rose, stammering out his thanks.

'That's been my nature all my life, I tell you--to help the lame dogs--ask anybody that knows me.

That'll do; that'll do! Now then, what's going to be your line of action ?' Fenwick turned on him a face that vainly endeavoured to hide the joy of its owner.
'I shall look out, of course, first of all, for some bread-and-butter work.

I shall go to the editors of the illustrated papers and show them some things.

I shall attend some life-school in the evenings.