On the present occasion, he appeared to have bestowed more than ordinary attention on his toilette. He was conscious of a peculiar pleasure in sitting there and thinking of those few hours which already were becoming to assume a definite importance in his mind—a place curiously apart from those dry-as-dust images which had become the gods of his prosaic life. It did affect the business that they all argued badly and were egotistical in their manners and inconsistent in their phrases. We have known men who have come here for no other purpose than to prove their unassailable virtue, who have strode into the arena of temptation, waving the—the what is it—the white flower of a blameless life, only to exchange it with marvellous facility for the violets of the Parisienne. ‘How is this? Proo-den-ss. “It was fine and brave of you. Yes, I can readily believe it. Better even than these. ’ Melusine hesitated.
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