Don't you see ?" Mr.Merlin did not seem to be in the least pacified by this reply.

It was, therefore, in an indignant tone that he answered: "Aunt Winnifred, it is not kind in you to come up here and make me lose my time and temper, while you sit there coolly and talk in infernal parables!" "Infernal parables!" cried the lady, in a tone of surprise and horror.
"Oh, Arthur, Arthur! that comes of not going to church.

Infernal parables! My soul and body, what an awful idea!" The painter smiled.

The contest was too utterly futile.

He went slowly back to his easel, and, after a few soothing puffs, began again to rub his colors upon the pallet.