“Nothing, nothing. Only I know that there were some people playing tennis at the next house, and very likely the two gardens are connected, and I’m wondering whether that girl——”
“Good heavens,” said Charles.... “You haven’t got such a thing as a hairpin about you, have you? This pipe’s stopped up.”
“The Nambudiri school is progressing with the French motto of ‘Festina lente!’”—The Malabar Herald.
More progress might be made with the old Latin tag, “Trop de zèle.”
“‘As long as I can play as good a game of golf as I did to-day I will never get any cider,’ was Mr. Rockefeller’s reply to one of the friends who called to congratulate him.”—New York Sun.
He may, however, get older, even then.