"And Sir Richard Pakenham is so very, very fat.

Ah, God! You can not guess how fat he is.

But you, you are not fat." She looked me over critically, to my great uneasiness.
"All the more reason for doing as I have suggested, Madam; for Mr.
Calhoun is not even so fat as I am.

This little interview with my chief, I doubt not, will prove of interest.

Indeed"-- I went on seriously and intently--"I venture to say this much without presuming on my station: the talk which you will have with my chief to-night will show you things you have never known, give you an interest in living which perhaps you have not felt.