She is his only child now--and brilliant--what?
Willie positively spluttered trying to describe her to me; and I could see directly you came in that you had an uncommon experience." Renouard, with an irritated gesture, tilted his hat more forward on his eyes, as though he were bored.

The Editor went on with the remark that to be sure neither he (Renouard) nor yet Willie were much used to meet girls of that remarkable superiority.

Willie when learning business with a firm in London, years before, had seen none but boarding-house society, he guessed.

As to himself in the good old days, when he trod the glorious flags of Fleet Street, he neither had access to, nor yet would have cared for the swells.

Nothing interested him then but parliamentary politics and the oratory of the House of Commons.
He paid to this not very distant past the tribute of a tender, reminiscent smile, and returned to his first idea that for a society girl her action was rather fine.