Your story, on the other hand, is a brilliant success.

See with what breathless interest it was listened to, and how it haunts the memories of your hearers even yet!" This raised a slight titter.

I do not know why it should, save that some of the young ladies were frightened, and accepted the first opportunity whereby they could in some way relieve their feelings.

Anyhow it aroused Mr.Voltaire, for, as he looked at me, there was the look of a demon in his face, and his hand trembled.
"Do you doubt the existence of the forces I have mentioned ?" he asked.
"Do you think that the matters to which I have referred exist only in the mind?
Are they, in your idea, no sciences in reality ?" "Pardon me, Mr.Voltaire," I replied, "but I am an Englishman.

We are thought by foreigners to be very conservative, and perhaps there may be truth in it.