The man in the tall hat and dress-coat went in; the official group at the threshold dissolved; the statue in ivory and ebony resumed its place; evidently the Hoheit of Coburg, or Montenegro, or Prussia, was not going to take the air.
"My dear, this is humiliating." "Not at all! I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

Think how near we came to seeing them!" "I shouldn't feel so shabby if we had seen them.

But to hang round here in this plebeian abeyance, and then to be defeated and defrauded at last! I wonder how long this sort of thing is going on ?" "What thing ?" "This base subjection of the imagination to the Tom Foolery of the Ages." "I don't know what you mean.

I'm sure it's very natural to want to see a Prince." "Only too natural.

It's so deeply founded in nature that after denying royalty by word and deed for a hundred years, we Americans are hungrier for it than anybody else.