Why should men and women have ever taken the trouble to be affected?
Let us go in to lunch and eat with the appetites of men and women of the nineties, not with the nibblings of society of the fifties.

Come along, Phyllis.

Mr.Courtland will tell us all about his dreadful goings on, his slave-dealings, his dynamitings.

Have you seen that article in the--what's the name of the paper, Phyllis ?" "The _Spiritual Aneroid_," said Phyllis.
"I haven't been so fortunate," said he.
"Then we shall take the paper into the dining room with us, and place it before you.

If you were guilty of the doings that the article details, you would do well to--to--well, to adopt the picturesque costume incidental to ruffianism--the linen jacket of the slave-trader, the mangy fur collar of the dynamity man of war.