In this expression of opinion every man present agreed--the lawyer even included.

Not one of them could call to mind the innumerable instances in which the sexual influence has proved irresistible in the persons of women without even the pretension to beauty.

The very members of the club whom the Countess (in spite of her personal disadvantages) could have most easily fascinated, if she had thought it worth her while, were the members who wondered most loudly at Montbarry's choice of a wife.
While the topic of the Countess's marriage was still the one topic of conversation, a member of the club entered the smoking-room whose appearance instantly produced a dead silence.

Doctor Wybrow's next neighbour whispered to him, 'Montbarry's brother--Henry Westwick!' The new-comer looked round him slowly, with a bitter smile.
'You are all talking of my brother,' he said.

'Don't mind me.