Look at him, gentlemen, while you can, and watch him while he spends thirteen thousand dollars for flowers!" "With a Viennese orchestra for twenty-nine thousand!" added Bragdon.
"And yet they maintain that silence is golden." "And three singers to divide twelve thousand among themselves! That's absolutely criminal," cried Van Winkle.

"Over in Germany they'd sing a month for half that amount." "Six hundred guests to feed--total cost of not less than forty thousand dollars," groaned "Nopper," dolefully.
"And there aren't six hundred in town," lamented "Subway" Smith.

"All that glory wasted on two hundred rank outsiders." "You men are borrowing a lot of trouble," yawned Brewster, with a gallant effort to seem bored.

"All I ask of you is to come to the party and put up a good imitation of having the time of your life.

Between you and me I'd rather be caught at Huyler's drinking ice cream soda than giving this thing.