"I'd like to have a shake of that fellow's paw.

What's his name, d'ye know ?" "Ercildoune." "Hey ?" "Ercildoune." "Jemime! Ercildoune,--from Philadelphia, you say ?" "Yes,--do you know him ?" "Well, no,--I don't exactly know him, but I think I know something about him.

His pa's rich as a nob, if it's the one I mean,"-- and then finished sotto voce, "it's Mrs.Surrey's brother, sure as a gun!" "Well, he ought to be rich, if he ain't.

As we, that's the Captain and me, were walking away, the Captain said to one of the officers of the Fifty-fourth who'd been listening to the talk, 'It's easy for that man to preach self-denial for a principle.

He's rich, I've heard.