- "Be as quick as you can, will you, for there's a young gentleman who is afflicted with too much money and leisure wanting me now, I find."
- "Going to kill himself because he has too much money!" exclaimed the baron, quite tickled: "Ha! ha! that's a good one."
- (This was the first time the baron had laughed for many a long day.) "I say," expostulated the figure, looking very much scared;
- "don't do that again." "Why not?" demanded the baron. "Because it gives me pain all over," replied the figure.
- "Sigh as much as you please; that does me good." The baron sighed mechanically, at the mention of the word; the figure,
- brightening up again, handed him the hunting-knife with the most winning politeness.
