Lord Bantry envied the contemplative calm which unexciting circumstances allowed the literary ancient.

Mademoiselle de Cressy advanced the feminist view in favour of the modern world.

The talk became the light and dancing interplay of opinion and paradox common to thousands of twentieth-century dinner-tables.
"All the same," said Count Lavretsky, "they wear you out, these emotive forces.

Nobody is young nowadays.

Youth is a lost art." "On the contrary," cried Mademoiselle de Cressy in French.