CHAPTER IX.
The earl and Washington started on the sorrowful errand, talking as they walked.
"And as usual!" "What, Colonel ?" "Seven of them in that hotel.

Actresses.

And all burnt out, of course." "Any of them burnt up ?" "Oh, no they escaped; they always do; but there's never a one of them that knows enough to fetch out her jewelry with her." "That's strange." "Strange--it's the most unaccountable thing in the world.

Experience teaches them nothing; they can't seem to learn anything except out of a book.

In some uses there's manifestly a fatality about it.