Had he done so?
A peep at the family as on the day of his expected arrival from Paris they sat waiting for him will enlighten us somewhat.

Taken as a whole, it was a very pleasant family group, which sat there waiting for the foreign lion, waiting for the whistle of the engine which was to herald his approach.
"I wonder if he has changed," said the mother, glancing at the opposite mirror and arranging the puffs of glossy false hair which shaded her aristocratic forehead.
"Of course he has changed somewhat," returned Miss Asenath, rubbing together her white, bony hands, on one of which a costly diamond was flashing.

"Nearly two years of Paris society must have imparted to him that _air distingue_ so desirable in a young man who has traveled." "He'll hardly fail of making a good match now," Miss Eudora remarked, caressing the pet spaniel which had climbed into her lap.

"I think we must manage to visit Saratoga or some of those places next summer.

Mr.
Gardner found his wife at Newport, and they say she's worth half a million." "But horridly ugly," and Anna looked up from the reverie in which she had been indulging.