You needn't appeal to mother.

You couldn't keep her from parading you up and down in the presence of her friends." He was looking at Mrs.Witherspoon.She smiled with more of humor than he had seen her face express, and thus delivered her opinion: "If we had no reception, people would think that we were ashamed of our son." "All right, mother; if you want your friends to meet the wild man of Borneo who has just come to town, I have nothing more to say.

Your word shall be a law with me; but I must tell you that whenever you make arrangements into which I enter, you must remember that society and I have had scarcely a hat-tipping acquaintance.

I may know many things that society never even dreamed of, but some of society's simplest phases are dangerous mysteries to me." "Nonsense," said Witherspoon.

"Society may rule a poor man, but a rich man rules society.