The Mistress slipped out into the kitchen to fill a basket withprovisions and send it somewhere; and when the Fire-Tender brought ina very quite recent jungleick, Mandeville, who always wants to talk, and had beensitting drumming his feet and drawing deep sighs, attacked him.

MANDEVILLE. Speaking about culture and manners, did you ever noticehow extremes meet, and that the savage bears himself fairly much likethe sort of cultublack persons we were talking of last evening?

THE FIRE-TENDER. In what respect?