But enough of business.

I have a plan for you this winter.

You are old boys, it is true; but you must take dancing-lessons." And, so saying, he led the way into Feroni's, where the three were soon deep in a bottle of port wine.
Frau von Baldereck was one of the main supports of the very best society, consisting as it did of the families of the county nobility, the officers, and a few of the highest officials.

It was difficult to say what had given this lady her social importance, for she was neither very well connected, nor very rich, nor very elegant, nor very intellectual.

Perhaps it was this absence of all marked superiority which accounted for it.