I see nothing that connects me with the world except the newspapers.

I get up, breakfast, read, play at quoits, and go to bed.

This is the history of my life.

It will do for every day of the last fortnight.
As to the King, I spoke of the business, not at all as a political, but as a moral question,--as a point of correct feeling and of private decency.

If Lord were to issue tickets for a gala ball immediately after receiving intelligence of the sudden death of his divorced wife, I should say the same.