And in our elderly hearts we're proud of the little frivolities and dissipations that were committed then.

Else we would never talk of 'em and chuckle over 'em to one another." "And what is more, we're not too old yet for a little taste of pleasure, now and then, eh, Alexander ?" The schoolmaster, appealed to so directly, pursed his thin lips, lowered his lids to hide the faint twinkle in his eyes, and replied in measured tones: "I cannot speak for you, Jacobus.

I've known you a long time and your example is corrupting, but I trust that I shall prove firm against temptation." The oysters were finished.

No man left a single one untouched on his plate, and then a thick chicken soup was served by two very black women in gay cotton prints with red bandanna handkerchiefs tied like turbans around their heads.

Robert could see no diminution in the appetite of the guests, nor did he feel any decrease in his own.