They affront him with their love-making and their marriages.

He has to leave the room when anything bordering on sentiment is read aloud.

'Tripe,' he calls it in his low way.

_Do_ you remember his scorn of knight-errants who rescued distressed damsels?
They seemed to him so little worth rescuing." "I never cared much for sentiment myself," said Mrs.Hope.

"I wouldn't give a good adventure yarn for all the love-stories ever written." "Mother remains very boyish," said Augusta.