The Kolchekoffs lived on their estates, and as a matter of fact we never met.

Naida has gone over to the people, though, body and soul." "She is extraordinarily beautiful," Nigel remarked.
His companion was swinging his eyeglass back and forth by its cord.
"Many men have thought so," he replied.

"For myself, there is antagonism in my blood against her.

I wonder whether I have done well or ill in making you two acquainted." Nigel felt a sudden desire to break through a certain seriousness which had come over his own thoughts and which was reflected in the other's tone.

He shrugged his shoulders slightly and filled his glass with wine.
"Every man in the world is the better," he propounded, "for adding to the circle of his acquaintances a beautiful woman." "Sententious and a trifle inaccurate," the Prince objected, with a sudden flash of his white teeth.