I always did doubt a man's being a gentleman if his palate had no acquired tastes.

An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart.

The idea of my bringing out a bottle of my '40 Martinez--only eleven of them left now--to a man who didn't know it from eighteenpenny! Then the Latin line he gave to my quotation; it was very cut-and-dried, very; or I, who haven't looked into a classical author for the last eighteen years, shouldn't have remembered it.

Well, Elfride, you had better go to your room; you'll get over this bit of tomfoolery in time.' 'No, no, no, papa,' she moaned.

For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease.
'Elfride,' said her father with rough friendliness, 'I have an excellent scheme on hand, which I cannot tell you of now.