I have always been too lazy to encourage them, and as for moral law,--I adhere to morality with the greatest strictness, because if a fellow is immoral, he ceases to be a gentleman.

Now, as there are very few gentlemen nowadays, I fancy I'd like to be one as long as I can." Errington here interposed.

"You mustn't take him seriously.

Mr.
Gueldmar," he said; "he's never serious himself, I'll give you his character in a few words.

He belongs to no religious party, it's true,--but he's a first-rate fellow,--the best fellow I know!" Lorimer glanced at him quietly with a gratified expression on his face.
But he said nothing, for Thelma was regarding him with a most bewitching smile.
"Ah!" she said, shaking a reproachful finger at him, "you do love all nonsense, that I can see! You would make every person laugh, if you could,--is it not so ?" "Well, yes," admitted George, "I think I would! But it's a herculean task sometimes.