I begged him not, but he laughed at me." "Well, my dear," said Miss Raeburn, cheerfully, "if nobody bought sables, there'd be other poor people up in Russia, isn't it ?--or Hudson's Bay ?--badly off.

One has, to think of that.

Oh, you needn't talk, Aldous! I know you say it's a fallacy.

_I_ call it common sense." She got, however, only a slight smile from Aldous, who had long ago left his great-aunt to work out her own economics.

And, anyway, she saw that he was wholly absorbed from his seat beside Lady Winterbourne in watching Miss Boyce.
"It's precisely as Lord Maxwell says," replied Lady Winterbourne; "that kind of thing used to satisfy everybody.