I wish old Wratislaw were here to ask him what he thinks, for he knows Lewie better than any of us.

Is he a member here ?" "Oh yes, he is a member, but I don't think he comes much.

You people are too frivolous for him." "Well, that is all the good done by subscribing to a news-cutting agency for news of one's friends.

I feel as low as ditch water.

There is that idiot who goes off to the ends of the earth for three years, and when he comes back his friends get no good of him for the confounded women." George echoed the ancient complaint which is doubtless old as David and Jonathan.
Then these two desolated young men, in view of their friend's defection, were full of sad memories, much as relations after a funeral hymn the acts of the deceased.
George lit a cigar and smoked it savagely.