I hope you will come to see us, Mr.Armitage." "Thank you; you are very kind," he said gravely.

"I shall certainly give myself the pleasure very soon." As Shirley passed on with Chauvenet Mrs.Sanderson launched upon the girl's praises, but she found him suddenly preoccupied.
"The girl has gone to your head.

Why didn't you tell me you knew the Claibornes ?" "I don't remember that you gave me a chance; but I'll say now that I intend to know them better." She bade him take her to the drawing-room.

As they went down through the house they found that the announcement of the Emperor Johann Wilhelm's death had cast a pall upon the company.

All the members of the diplomatic corps had withdrawn at once as a mark of respect and sympathy for Baron von Marhof, and at midnight the ball-room held all of the company that remained.