The Queen, Gawd bless 'er, and Bill McKinley!" "Bottoms up!" thundered Jake Cornell, and the mugs smote the table with clanging rims.
Vance Corliss discovered himself amused and interested.

According to Frona, he mused ironically,--this was learning life, was adding to his sum of human generalizations.

The phrase was hers, and he rolled it over a couple of times.

Then, again, her engagement with St.Vincent crept into his thought, and he charmed the Virgin by asking her to sing.

But she was coy, and only after Bishop had rendered the several score stanzas of "Flying Cloud" did she comply.