Your true collector always has some unaccountable fad of that kind.

On other points he's as level-headed as a breeder of shorthorns, which is what he happens to be.

Then the Pinwells, as you probably know, have their share of eccentricity too.

Lady Maud, for instance--" he was interrupted here by the necessity of considering his move,--"Lady Maud has a horror of cats and clergymen, and people with big front teeth.

I've heard her shout across a table, 'Keep your mouth shut, Miss Smith; they're as yellow as carrots!' across a table, mind you.