"NO PLACE LIKE HOME!"
Smith (meeting the Browns at the station on their return from the Continent). "Delighted to see you back, my boy! But—well, and how did you like Italy?"
Mrs. B. (who is "artistic"). "Oh, charming, you know, the pictures and statues and all that! But Charles had typhoid for six weeks at Feverenze (our hotel was close to that glorious Melfizzi Palazzo, y'know), and after that I caught the Roman fever, and so," &c., &c.
[They think they go to Ramsgate next year.
STUDY AT A QUIET FRENCH WATERING-PLACE
"Now, then, mossoo, your form is of the manliest beauty, and you are altogether a most attractive object; but you've stood there long enough. So jump in and have done with it!"