Howard--listen to me--at all costs the ladies must never see _that_--must never know.

Dieu! it was horrible.

I feel all twisted here--as when I smoked my first cigar." He touched himself on the chest, and with one of his inimitable gestures described in the air a great upheaval.
"I will try to prevent it," I answered.
"Then you will succeed, for your way of suggesting might easily be called by another name.

And it is not only the women who obey you.

I told Lucille the other day that she was afraid of you, and she blazed up in such a fury of denial that I felt smaller than nature has made me.