The trooper shakes his head, and leaning forward with his right elbow on his right knee and his pipe supported in that hand, while his other hand, resting on his left leg, squares his left elbow in a martial manner, continues to smoke. Meanwhile he looks at Mr. Smallweed with grave attention and now and then fans the cloud of smoke away in order that he may see him the more clearly.
"I take it," he says, making just as much and as little change in his position as will enable him to reach the glass to his lips with a round, full action, "that I am the only man alive (or dead either) that gets the value of a pipe out of YOU?"
"Well," returns the old man, "it's true that I don't see company, Mr. George, and that I don't treat. I can't afford to it. But as you, in your pleasant way, made your pipe a condition--"
"Why, it's not for the value of it; that's no great thing. It was a fancy to get it out of you. To have something in for my money."

Meanwhile he looks at Mr. Smallweed with grave attention.
"I take it," he says, "that I am the only man alive that gets the value of a pipe out of you?"
"Well," returns the old man, "it's true that I don't see company, Mr. George, and that I don't treat. I can't afford it. But as you, in your pleasant way, made your pipe a condition-"
"Why, it's not for the value of it. It was a fancy to get it out of you. To have something for my money."
