Mr.Barrett was gone.
"But, no doubt, you take no interest in such reckonings ?" Sir Twickenham added.
"On the contrary, I take every interest in practical details." Practical men believe this when they hear it from the lips of gentlewomen, and without philosophically analyzing the fact that it is because the practical quality possesses simply the fascination of a form of strength.

Sir Twickenham pursued his details.

Day closed on Brookfield blankly.

Nevertheless, the ladies felt that the situation was now dignified by tragic feeling, and remembering keenly how they had been degraded of late, they had a sad enjoyment of the situation..