In about five minutes some one knocked.
"Who is it ?" inquired the Prince.
"It is I.

Open to the Queen of England!" haughtily responded her Majesty.

There was no reply.

After a long interval there came a gentle tapping and the low spoken words: "It is I, Victoria, your wife." Is it necessary to add that the door was opened, or that the disagreement was at an end?
It is said that civility is to a man what beauty is to a woman: it creates an instantaneous impression in his behalf.
The monk Basle, according to a quaint old legend, died while under the ban of excommunication by the pope, and was sent in charge of an angel to find his proper place in the nether world.

But his genial disposition and great conversational powers won friends wherever he went.