There is not much more in it than that.

I would rather be on the back of the 'bore' for instance, as it sweeps up the tidal river, than the swimmer caught underneath it." "Well, that is intelligible," said Lady Selina Farrell, looking at her neighbour, as she crumbled her dinner-roll.

To crumble your bread at dinner is a sign of nervousness, according to Sydney Smith, who did it with both hands when he sat next an Archbishop; yet no one for a good many years past had ever suspected Lady Selina of nervousness, though her powers had probably been tried before now by the neighbourhood of many Primates, Catholic and Anglican.

For Lady Selina went much into society, and had begun it young.
"Still, you know," she resumed after a moment's pause--"you _play_ enthusiasm in public--I suppose you must." "Oh! of course," said Wharton, indifferently.

"That is in the game." "Why should it be--always?
If you are a leader of the people, why don't you educate them?
My father says that bringing feeling into politics is like making rhymes in one's account book." "Well, when you have taught the masses how _not_ to feel," said Wharton, laughing, "we will follow your advice.