CHAPTER XI.
THEIR "RANK IS BUT THE GUINEA'S STAMP."
"And what does our Diogenes find to say?" said Mrs. Gower, gaily, as on the night of the 9th November she gathered a few friends to supper, after an evening at the Grand Opera House. "Come, Mr. Dale, like a good man, confess that Mrs. Langtry is worth letting your tub go to staves for."
"Well, on the whole, yes. I think she has improved."
"Improved! but I suppose one must be content with even such admission from you."
"But, my dear lady, when a man has seen the best that London, Paris, and New York can put on their theatre boards, what you in Canada offer is merely pour passez le temp."
"Yes, I suppose one grows to feel like that; but I am glad I have yet a few sights to see, if, by seeing everything, one loses one's zest for anything."
"But you surely do not admire her choice of plays?"
"No; but I do really deem her a born actress, as clever as she is charming."