We fancy ourselves the fixed and necessary element in society, to which all others are to accommodate themselves.

"Given the rights of the few rich, to find the condition of the many poor." It seems to me that other postulate is quite as fair: "Given the rights of the many poor, to find the condition of the few rich."' Lord Minchampstead laughed.
'If you hit us so hard, Mr.Smith, I must really denounce you as a Communist.

Lord Vieuxbois, shall we join the ladies ?' In the drawing-room, poor Lancelot, after rejecting overtures of fraternity from several young ladies, set himself steadily again against the wall to sulk and watch Argemone.

But this time she spied in a few minutes his melancholy, moonstruck face, swam up to him, and said something kind and commonplace.

She spoke in the simplicity of her heart, but he chose to think she was patronising him--she had not talked commonplaces to the vicar.