So let me send it to you.' It was honest embarrassment; he did not mean to be impertinent.
And she did.
Blum, of the Geological Department--Herr Blum in his own country--came up and honestly rejoiced, and at end of an interminable pipe did purchase a little Breton bit that I hated to see go--it was one of the things that gave the place its air; but Blum had a large family undergoing education at Heidelberg, and exclaimed, to Armour's keenest anguish, that on this account he could not more do.
Altogether, during the months of August and September, persons resident in Simla drawing their income from Her Majesty, bought from the eccentric young artist from nowhere, living on Summer Hill, canvases and little wooden panels to the extent of two hundred and fifty rupees.

Lady Pilkey had asked him to lunch--she might well! and he had appeared at three garden-parties and a picnic.

It was not enough.
It was not enough, and yet it was, in a manner, too much.

Pitiful as it was in substance, it had an extraordinary personal effect.

Armour suddenly began to turn himself out well--his apparel was of smarter cut than mine, and his neckties in better taste.