"There have been some horrid things in English history." "Oh horrid--HAVEN'T there ?" Aggie, whose speech had the prettiest faintest foreignness, sweetly and eagerly quavered.
"Well, darling, Mr.Longdon will recommend to you some nice historical work--for we love history, don't we ?--that leaves the horrors out.

We like to know," the Duchess explained to the authority she invoked, "the cheerful happy RIGHT things.

There are so many, after all, and this is the place to remember them.

A tantot." As she passed into the house by the nearest of the long windows that stood open Mr.Longdon placed himself beside her little charge, whom he treated, for the next ten minutes, with an exquisite courtesy.

A person who knew him well would, if present at the scene, have found occasion in it to be freshly aware that he was in his quiet way master of two distinct kinds of urbanity, the kind that added to distance and the kind that diminished it.