Worser luck I never knew.--Well, you need not make it worserer. I always said he had a good 'eart.--Yes, quite an artist. So glad to see you, old cock!--Come, allow me humanity. Contemptuous fellow! I would not go near him.--If he were contemptible, it would not matter, I suppose. He is the most unique of friends.--Good; one likes degrees in uniqueness. How aggravating!--Indeed? what does it aggravate? So I ascended up.--Ingenious man, doubling your speed like that. I had to do it; I was in an engagement.--Like Xenophon's hoplites. I got round him.--Comprehensive person. They went to law, but were compounded.--You don't say they didn't get apart again? He would apply the same delicate treatment to people unsound in their Attic. 'That's the truth of it,' said some one, 'between you and I.' 'Ah no, you will have to admit that you and me are wrong there.' Another person giving a circumstantial account of a local legend said: 'So when she mingled with Heracles--' 'Without Heracles's mingling with her?' He asked a man who told him that he must have a close crop, what his particular felony had been. 'There I quarrel,' said his opponent in an argument. 'It takes two to make a quarrel.' When some one described his sick servant as undergoing torture, he asked, 'What for? what do they suppose they are going to get out of him?' Some one was said to be going ahead in his studies. 'Let me see,' he said; 'it is Plato, I think, who calls that making progress.' 'Will we have a fine day?' 'If God shall.' 'Archaist, curse not thy friend!' he retorted, to a man who called him curst instead of crusty. A man once used the phrase, 'I was trying to save his face.' 'But is he in any danger of losing it?' asked Socrates. 'Chided,' said one man, 'chode,' another. He disclaimed all acquaintance with either form. A person who volunteered 'but and if' was commended for his generosity. Some one tried him with 'y-pleased'; 'no, no,' said he; 'that is too much of a good thing.' 'I expect him momently,' some one announced. 'A good phrase,' he said; 'so is "minutely"; we have excellent authority for "daily."' 'Look you!' said a man, meaning 'look.' 'Yes, what am I to look you at?' He took up a man who said, 'Yes, I can grapple with that,' meaning that he understood, with 'Oh, you are going to throw me, are you? how?' 'How shrill those fives are!' said some one. 'Oh, come now,' said Socrates; 'seditions and strives, but not drums and fives.' 'That man is heavily weighed,' one man observed. 'You are quite right; there is no such word as weighted.' 'He has thrived on it,' some one assured him. 'The people among whom he has thrived cannot be very particular.' People were very fond of calling it at-one-ment. 'Yes, all right,' he would say; 'I know what it means.' Mention being made of a black-hen, he supposed that would be the female of the grey-cock. Some one said he had been eating sparrowgrass. 'You'll be trying groundsel next,' was his comment.