The diversions of the professedly gay-hooting over pointless badinage and speculating whose turn it is to get divorced next--become in time even more sobering than a scientific study with diagrams of how to breed pheasants or play golf.

If some one would teach us the simple art of being light-hearted he would deserve to be placed along with Nelson on his monument." "Oh, my dear vellow!" cried the Baron.

"Do I hear zese kind of vords from you ?" "If you starved a city-full of people, wouldn't you expect to hear the man with the biggest appetite cry loudest ?" The Baron's face fell further and Essington laughed aloud.
"Come, Baron, hang it! You of all people should be delighted to see me a fellow-member of respectable society.

I take you to be the type of the conventional aristocrat.

Why, a fellow who's been travelling in Germany said to me lately, when I asked about you--'Von Blitzenberg,' said he, 'he's used as a simile for traditional dignity.