And when a snob came to poison the air, how exquisitely one could annihilate him with showing him his ignorance of claret; and when an epicure dined, how delightfully, as one carried in a turbot, one could test him with the eprouvette positive, or crush him by the eprouvette negative.

We have been Equerries at the Palace, both of us, but I don't think we know what true dignity is till we shall have risen to headwaiters at a Grand Hotel." With which Bertie let his charger pace onward, while he reflected thoughtfully on his future state.

The Seraph laughed till he almost swayed out of saddle, but he shook himself into his balance again with another clash of his brilliant harness, while his eyes lightened and glanced with a fiery gleam down the line of the Household Cavalry.
"Well, if I went to the dogs I wouldn't go to Grand Hotels; but I'll tell you where I would go, Beauty." "Where's that ?" "Into hot service, somewhere.

By Jove, I'd see some good fighting under another flag--out in Algeria, there, or with the Poles, or after Garibaldi.

I would, in a day--I'm not sure I won't now, and I bet you ten to one the life would be better than this." Which was ungrateful in the Seraph, for his happy temper made him the sunniest and most contented of men, with no cross in his life save the dread that somebody would manage to marry him some day.