XXXIX.

You can live twenty years in New York and never know who your next door neighbor is.”

XL.

No, I’d just as lief stand; I’ve been sitting down all day.”

XLI.

Funny how people always confide their love-affairs to me!”

XLII.

I’d rather be blind than deaf—it’s such a tax on your friends.”

XLIII.

_“I haven’t played a game of billiards for two years, but I’ll try, just for the fun of it_.”