That was Dan Merion's joke with the watchman: and he said that other thing to the Marquis of Kingsbury, when the latter asked him if he had ever won a donkey-race.
And old Dan is dead, and we are the duller for it! which leads to the question: Is genius hereditary?
And the affirmative and negative are respectively maintained, rather against the Yes is the dispute, until a member of the audience speaks of Dan Merion's having left a daughter reputed for a sparkling wit not much below the level of his own.

Why, are you unaware that the Mrs.Warwick of that scandal case of Warwick versus Dannisburgh was old Dan Merion's girl--and his only child?
It is true; for a friend had it from a man who had it straight from Mr.
Braddock, of the firm of Braddock, Thorpe and Simnel, her solicitors in the action, who told him he could sit listening to her for hours, and that she was as innocent as day; a wonderful combination of a good woman and a clever woman and a real beauty.

Only her misfortune was to have a furiously jealous husband, and they say he went mad after hearing the verdict.
Diana was talked of in the London circles.

A witty woman is such salt that where she has once been tasted she must perforce be missed more than any of the absent, the dowering heavens not having yet showered her like very plentifully upon us.

Then it was first heard that Percy Dacier had been travelling with her.