"And Marco,there's another thing which you must permit --out of kindness for Jones --because you wouldn't want to offend him.He was very anxious to testify his appreciation in some way,but he is so diffident he couldn't venture it himself,and so he begged me to buy some little things and give them to you and Dame Phyllis and let him pay for them without your ever knowing they came from him --you know how a delicate person feels about that sort of thing --and so I said I would,and we would keep mum.Well,his idea was,a new outfit of clothes for you both --""Oh,it is wastefulness!It may not be,brother,it may not be.Consider the vastness of the sum --""Hang the vastness of the sum!Try to keep quiet for a moment,and see how it would seem;a body can't get in a word edgeways,you talk so much.
You ought to cure that,Marco;it isn't good form,you know,and it will grow on you if you don't check it.Yes,we'll step in here now and price this man's stuff --and don't forget to remember to not let on to Jones that you know he had anything to do with it.You can't think how curiously sensitive and proud he is.He's a farmer --pretty fairly well-to-do farmer --an I'm his bailiff;BUT --the imagination of that man!Why,sometimes when he forgets himself and gets to blowing off,you'd think he was one of the swells of the earth;and you might listen to him a hundred years and never take him for a farmer --especially if he talked agriculture.