But waiving all that, what business have you to be entering this house in this furtive and clandestine way, without ringing the burglar alarm ?' "He looked confused and ashamed, and said, with embarrassment: 'I beg a thousand pardons.

I did not know you had a burglar alarm, else I would have rung it.

I beg you will not mention it where my parents may hear of it, for they are old and feeble, and such a seemingly wanton breach of the hallowed conventionalities of our Christian civilization might all too rudely sunder the frail bridge which hangs darkling between the pale and evanescent present and the solemn great deeps of the eternities.

May I trouble you for a match ?' "I said: 'Your sentiments do you honor, but if you will allow me to say it, metaphor is not your best hold.

Spare your thigh; this kind light only on the box, and seldom there, in fact, if my experience may be trusted.