The less he thought the more wisely he talked.

Meditation hampered him, and like a rabbit, he was generally at his best when he first "jumped up." He shook hands with Henry, looked at him a moment and asked: "Are you going to run a newspaper with all those old geysers you've got over there ?" The new member winced.
"Don't pay any attention to Flummers," John Richmond said.
"Oh, yes," Flummers insisted.

"You see, I know all those fellows.

Some of them were worn out ten years ago--but say, are you paying anything over there ?" "Yes, paying as much as any paper in the town." "That's the stuff; but say, you can afford it.

Who rang the bell?
Did anybody ring?
Boy," (speaking to a waiter), "we ought to have something to drink here." "Do _you_ want to pay for it ?" Richmond asked.
"Oh, ho, ho, no, I'm busted.