There are members of the House of Lords, who have accomplished their labours as legislators--and their wives, peeresses, who have done their duty by the London season--on their way back to stately mansions in the land from which they draw their incomes.

Great people these in drawing-rooms or clubs; greater still in the remote Irish villages which their names still dominate; but not particularly great on the Euston platform, for there is little respect of persons there as the time of the train's departure draws near.

A porter pushed his barrow, heavy with trunks and crowned with gun-cases, against the legs of an earl, who swore.

A burly man, red faced and broad shouldered, elbowed a marchioness who, not knowing how to swear effectively, tried to wither him with a glance.

She failed.