The great guns, and big bugs, have to take in each other's ladies, so these old ones have to herd together.

Well, the nobodies go together too, and sit together, and I've observed these nobodies are the pleasantest people at table, and they have the pleasantest places, because they sit down with each other, and are jist like yourself, plaguy glad to get some one to talk to.

Somebody can only visit somebody, but nobody can go anywhere, and therefore nobody sees and knows twice as much as somebody does.

Somebodies must be axed, if they are as stupid as a pump; but nobodies needn't, and never are, unless they are spicy sort o' folks, so you are sure of them, and they have all the fun and wit of the table at their eend, and no mistake.
"I wouldn't take a title if they would give it to me, for if I had one, I should have a fat old parblind dowager detailed on to me to take in to dinner; and what the plague is her jewels and laces, and silks and sattins, and wigs to me?
As it is, I have a chance to have a gall to take in that's a jewel herself--one that don't want no settin' off, and carries her diamonds in her eyes, and so on.

I've told our minister not to introduce me as an Attache no more, but as Mr.Nobody, from the State of Nothin', in America, _that's natur agin_.
"But to get back to the dinner.