How did it all happen ?" "I scarcely know the plot (for there _was_ a plot), but only the _denouement_.

I had offended a certain Mr.Fane, toady-in-ordinary to Frederick Chandos." "Ah!" cried Mrs.Yorke, shaking her head.
"Yes; you were right again, mother, there--the whole affair is a tribute to your sagacity, if you will only permit me to narrate it to you.

I say that this fellow Fane, when walking with his patron's brother, stupid Jack, had me pointed out to him in town one day as the man who had 'pulled him through,' as he called it.

Can you imagine how even such a fool as he could have been so mad?
It was an act of suicide, which, so far as I know, fools never commit.

Well, Fane was pretty certain of the identity of your humble servant, which he was, moreover, anxious to establish, because I had beaten him at pool, and given him the rough side of my tongue." "Oh, Dick, Dick! have skillful hand and ready speech been only given you to make enemies ?" Richard laughed, and lighted a cigar.
"Well, sometimes, mother, the most prudent of us are carried away by our own genius.