Smoking is not permitted here." The man made no reply, but threw his cigar from the window.

What has her astonishment when the conductor told her, a moment later, that she had entered the private car of General Grant.
She withdrew in confusion, but the same fine courtesy which led him to give up his cigar was shown again as he spared her the mortification of even a questioning glance, still less of a look of amusement, although she watched his dumb, immovable figure with apprehension until she reached the door.
Julian Ralph, after telegraphing an account of President Arthur's fishing-trip to the Thousand Islands, returned to his hotel at two o'clock in the morning, to find all the doors locked.

With two friends who had accompanied him, he battered at a side door to wake the servants, but what was his chagrin when the door was opened by the President of the United States! "Why, that's all right," said Mr.Arthur when Mr.Ralph asked his pardon.

"You wouldn't have got in till morning if I had not come.

No one is up in the house but me.