“No.”
“Not for a good price?”
“Not for any price.”
“I would give five hundred dollars for him.”
“I would not part with him for twice the amount.”
“I will give twice the amount.”
“I have become attached to him: money is no object.”
“I am sorry to hear it. I have travelled two hundred miles to buy that horse.”
I looked at my new acquaintance with astonishment, involuntarily repeating his last words.
“You must have followed us from the Arkansas, then?”