I simply told him that I wished my guests to have of the best." "Yet you never touch this sort of drink yourself," Immelan observed curiously.
The Prince shook his head.
"Sometimes I take wine," he said.

"That is generally at night.

A few evenings ago, for instance," he went on, with a reminiscent smile, "I drank Chateau Yquem, smoked Egyptian cigarettes, ate some muscatel grapes, and read 'Pippa Passes.' That was one of my banquets." "As a matter of fact," Immelan remarked thoughtfully, "you are far more western in thought than in habit.

The temperance of the East is in your blood." "I find that my manner of life keeps the brain clear," Prince Shan said slowly.

"I can see the truth sometimes when it is not very apparent.