She needn't pay court to those stupid, vulgar people." "Well, let's console ourselves with the belief that she would, if she needed.

Such people as the Dryfooses are the raw material of good society.

It isn't made up of refined or meritorious people--professors and litterateurs, ministers and musicians, and their families.

All the fashionable people there to-night were like the Dryfooses a generation or two ago.

I dare say the material works up faster now, and in a season or two you won't know the Dryfooses from the other plutocrats.