It is the skim of the milk of the old noblesse.

Do you know what a Legitimist is, or an Ultramontane?
Go into Madame de Cintre's drawing-room some afternoon, at five o'clock, and you will see the best preserved specimens.

I say go, but no one is admitted who can't show his fifty quarterings." "And this is the lady you propose to me to marry ?" asked Newman.

"A lady I can't even approach ?" "But you said just now that you recognized no obstacles." Newman looked at Mrs.Tristram a while, stroking his mustache.

"Is she a beauty ?" he demanded.
"No." "Oh, then it's no use--" "She is not a beauty, but she is beautiful, two very different things.