fortunes, and getting the handsomest men I ever saw. It was wonderful."

"Did you see any like me there, dear?"

"Yes; just as I was leaving I saw a whole lot like you lying on the remnant
counter."


40. INDIRECT AND DIRECT

[The following instances show that it is necessary to heed indirect as well
as direct meanings.]

Mr. Callon, M. P. for Louth, Ireland, a stanch opponent of the Sunday
Closing and Permissive Bill and personally a great benefactor to the
Revenue, replying to the Irish Attorney-General, said: "The facts relied on
by the learned gentleman are very strange. Now, Mr. Speaker, _I swallow a
good deal_. ['Hear, hear,' 'Quite true,' 'Begorra, you can,' and roars
of laughter.] I repeat, _I can swallow a great deal_ ['Hear, hear,'
and fresh volleys of laughter], but I can't swallow that." A few nights
before, in a debate which had to do with the Jews, Baron de Worms had just
remarked, "_We owe much to the Jews_," when there came a feeling groan
from a well-known member in his back corner, "_We do_."


41. AN UNMARRIED MAN'S WIFE

At a dinner at Delmonico's, after the bottle had made its tenth round,
one of the company proposed this toast: "To the man whose wife was never
vixenish to him!" A wag of an old bachelor jumped up and said: "Gentlemen,