He might have been naughty all the days of his life, and Mrs.Jacob Van Boozenberg and the rest of 'em would have been quite as glad to have him at their houses.

No, no, dears, society doesn't punish men for being naughty--only women.

I am older than you, and I have observed that society likes spice in character.
It doesn't harm a man to have stories told about him." No ball was complete without Abel Newt.

Ladies, meditating parties, engaged him before they issued a single invitation.

At dinners he was sparkling and agreeable, with tact enough not to extinguish the other men, who yet felt his superiority and did not half like it.