I tried a bit of Cicero against Catiline, but I couldn't remember it very well.
You know it, of course.

_Quousque tandem_, you know." [Illustration: "CATCHING MINNIE IN HIS ARMS, HE KISSED HER SEVERAL TIMES."] "Well, Min, how goes it ?" he continued.

"This _is_ jolly; and, what's more, it's real good in you--darn me if it ain't! I knew you'd be regularly struck up all of a heap when you heard of me as a Baron, but I really didn't think you'd come all the way here to see me.

And you do look stunning! You do beat all! And this lady?
You haven't introduced me, you know." The Baron rose, and looked expectantly at Mrs.Willoughby, and then at Minnie.

The latter faltered forth some words, among which the Baron caught the names Mrs.Willoughby and Rufus K.Gunn, the latter name pronounced, with the middle initial and all, in a queer, prim way.
"Mrs.Willoughby--ah!--Min's sister, I presume.