"I don't care a hang about the Middle Classes!" said Lord Buntingford, resting his head on his hand, and slowly drawing a pen over a printed sheet that lay before him.

The sheet was headed "Middle Class Defence League," and was an appeal to whom it might concern to join the founders of the League in an attempt to curb the growing rapacity of the working-classes.

"Why should we be snuffed out without a struggle ?" said the circular.

"We are fewer, no doubt, but we are better educated.

Our home traditions are infinitely superior.