In its milder forms it produces the effect of wit; in stronger doses it is a violent irritant; in large quantity, it causes those to whom it is administered to regard the person administering it as insane.

Perhaps Adelaide might have talked more or less frankly to Janet had Janet not been so obviously in the highest of her own kind of heavens.

She was raised to this pinnacle by the devoted attentions of the Viscount Brunais, eldest son of Saint Berthe and the most agreeable and adaptable of men, if the smallest and homeliest.

Adelaide spoke of his intelligence to Janet, when they were alone before dinner on the fourth day, and Janet at once responded.
"And such a soul!" she exclaimed.

"He inherits all the splendid, noble traditions of their old, _old_ family.