I've spint the greater part of my life reading folks' faces, and never very far out either." Von Baumser made no remark, and the two continued to smoke silently, with an occasional pull at their flagons.
"Besides, it's no good to me socially," the major continued.
"The fellow can't keep quiet, else he might pass in a crowd; but that demned commercial instinct will show itself.

If he went to heaven he'd start an agency for harps and crowns.

Did I tell you what the Honourable Jack Gibbs said to me at the club?
Ged, he let me have it straight! 'Buck,' he said, 'I don't mind you.

You're one o' the right sort when all's said and done, but if you ever inthroduce such a chap as that to me again, I'll cut you as well as him for the future.' I'd inthroduced them to put the young spalpeen in a good humour, for, being short, as ye know, I thought it might be necessary to negotiate a loan from him." "Vat did you say his name vas ?" Von Baumser asked suddenly.
"Girdlestone." "Is his father a Kauffmann ?" "What the divil is a Kauffmann ?" the major asked impatiently.

"Is it a merchant you mean ?" "Ah, a merchant.