4/32 All this is very inexplicable." "This gentleman, however, is a very old friend of yours, Clara. Do you not recognize Mr.Frank Farrar, who used to stay at the Hall in the old days? "But I should not have known him. Why have we never met in society during all these years, Mr.Farrar ?" "I suppose because I have been out of society, Miss Holland," said the scholar. "When a man marries, and has a large family, and a small income, and grows old, and has to see the young fellows shoving him out at every point, he doesn't care much about society. |