I hear it talked of everywhere as the most popular novel of the year.

You wonderful man! How do you do it ?" "I don't do it," answered Conrad Lagrange, looking straight into her eyes.

"It does itself.

My books are really true products of the age that reads them; and--to paraphrase a statesman who was himself a product of his age--for those who read my books they are just the kind of books that I would expect such people to read." Mrs.Taine looked at him with a curious, half-doubtful half-wistful expression; as though she glimpsed a hint of a meaning that did not appear upon the surface of his words.

"You do say such--such--twisty things," she murmured.