It was a Sellers fancy, though perhaps it should besaid here that John Quarles was not the chief original of that lovelycharacter in The Gilded Age. The others smiled and enjoyed him, but with that condescensionwhich the courtier is likely to accord to motley and the cap and bells. Perhaps you had better. For once she was tucking into her porridge without argument.
Hejoined in it with great enthusiasm. The only one who took it seriously was Gargery. She did not entirely approve of certain lines of his reading; or, rather,she did not understand them in those days. ' Oh, well! if you put it on the ground that they are just fools, thatalters the case, as I am one of that class myself.
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