Ethel could find no fault in it, except the monocle which he did not use once during the evening, and which she therefore decided was a quite idle and unhandsome adjunct.
One feature of his character was definite--he was a home-loving man.
He liked the society of women with whom he could be familiar, and he preferred the company of books and music to fashionable social functions.

This pleasant habit of domesticity was illustrated during the evening by an accidental incident--a noisy, mechanical street organ stopped before the windows, and in a blatant manner began its performance.

Conversation was paralyzed by the intrusion and when it was removed Judge Rawdon said: "What a democratic, leveling, aggressive thing music is! It insists on being heard.

It is always in the way, it thrusts itself upon you, whether you want it or not.

Now art is different.