I could not exhibit unreasonable grief at the demise of a sick monkey which I had never seen.
"I'm also out of books," she said, after having paid her tribute to the memory of the departed.

"I have been forced to ask the servants to lend me something to read.

Have you ever tried this sort of thing?
You ought to.

It tells you what goes on in high society." I was sure it didn't.

Not a duchess in its pages talked about having a blind hump.