in a club and stick me down at a card-table! I haven't come all this way
for that."

"What the deuce HAVE you come for! You were glad enough to play poker in
St. Louis, I recollect, when you cleaned me out."

"I have come to see Europe, to get the best out of it I can. I want to
see all the great things, and do what the clever people do."

"The clever people? Much obliged. You set me down as a blockhead, then?"

Newman was sitting sidewise in his chair, with his elbow on the back and
his head leaning on his hand. Without moving he looked a while at his
companion with his dry, guarded, half-inscrutable, and yet altogether
good-natured smile. "Introduce me to your wife!" he said at last.

Tristram bounced about in his chair. "Upon my word, I won't. She doesn't
want any help to turn up her nose at me, nor do you, either!"

"I don't turn up my nose at you, my dear fellow; nor at any one, or
anything. I'm not proud, I assure you I'm not proud. That's why I am
willing to take example by the clever people."

"Well, if I'm not the rose, as they say here, I have lived near it. I
can show you some clever people, too. Do you know General Packard? Do
you know C. P. Hatch? Do you know Miss Kitty Upjohn?"

"I shall be happy to make their acquaintance; I want to cultivate
society."