They are very prominent in the social world, and quite generous patrons of the arts ?" "In the eyes of the world," said the novelist, "they are the noblest of our Nobility.

They dwell in the rarefied atmosphere of millions.

By the dollarless multitudes they are envied.

They assume to be the cultured of the cultured.

Patrons of the arts! Why, man, _they have autographed copies of all my books!_ They and their kind _feed_ me and my kind.