It's too absurd." "But it's wise," I replied.

"There's a very bad verse in one of Hugo's plays.

It always amused me--he likens poverty to a low door and declares that when we have to pass through it the man who stoops lowest is the wisest.

So when you meet a madman, the wisest thing to do is to avoid him and not quarrel with him." "It's very hard, Frank; of course I'll think over what you say.

But really Queensberry ought to be in a madhouse.