His duty, as he saw it, was not to lead us to dwell upon the ravages of time, but rather to direct our attention to the means of repairing them.

What had we to do with broken-headed heroes, or bald-headed saints?
Our interest should be surely in the living world; in the maidens with their flowing tresses, or the flowing tresses they might have, by judicious use of "Kophkeo," in the young men with their fierce moustaches--as pictured on the label.
Unconsciously, in his own mind, he had divided the world into two sections.

The Past ("Before Use"), a sickly, disagreeable-looking, uninteresting world.

The Future ("After Use") a fat, jolly, God-bless- everybody sort of world; and this unfitted him as a guide to scenes of mediaeval history.
He sent us each a bottle of the stuff to our hotel.

It appeared that in the early part of our converse with him we had, unwittingly, clamoured for it.