"What pleasure can one have in a ghost after one has seen the phosphorus rubbed on ?" "Quite true, my dear lady.

'If ignorance be bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.' It all lies in the 'if.'" Then Miss Dunstable began to sing:-- "'What tho' I trace each herb and flower That sips the morning dew--' -- you know the rest, my lord." Lord Boanerges did know almost everything, but he did not know that; and so Miss Dunstable went on:-- "'Did I not own Jehovah's power How vain were all I knew.'" "Exactly, exactly, Miss Dunstable," said his lordship; "but why not own the power and trace the flower as well?
perhaps one might help the other." Upon the whole, I am afraid that Lord Boanerges got the best of it.

But, then, that is his line.

He has been getting the best of it all his life.
It was observed by all that the duke was especially attentive to young Mr.Frank Gresham, the gentleman on whom and on whose wife Miss Dunstable had seized so vehemently.

This Mr.Gresham was the richest commoner in the county, and it was rumoured that at the next election he would be one of the members for the East Riding.