_Elder Brother_. "HULLO, FRANK! HOW IS IT YOU'RE NOT IN MOURNING FOR
POOR AUNT GRACE?"
_Frank_. "AH--WELL--FACT IS, I TRIED ON SIXTEEN OR SEVENTEEN
HAT-BANDS, AND COULDN'T _GET ONE TO SUIT ME!_"]
* * * * *
"PUGS" AND "MUGS."
(_A QUOTATION WITH A COMMENT._)
"The faithful study of the fistic art
From mawkish softness guards the British heart."
The study of the betting British curse
From swift depletion guards the British purse!
* * * * *
THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS.
NO. IV.
SCENE--_The Wiertz Museum at Brussels, a large and
well-lighted gallery containing the works of the celebrated
Belgian, which are reducing a limited number of spectators to
the usual degree of stupefaction. Enter CULCHARD, who seats
himself on a central ottoman._
_Culchard_ (_to himself_). If PODBURY won't come down to breakfast
at a decent hour, he can't complain if I--I wonder if he heard Miss
TROTTER say she was thinking of coming here this morning. Somehow,
I _should_ like that girl to have a more correct comprehension of
my character. I don't so much mind her thinking me fastidious and
exclusive. I daresay I _am_--but I _do_ object to being made out a
hopeless melancholiac! (_He looks round the walls._) So these are
WIERTZ's masterpieces, eh? h'm. Strenuous, vigorous,--a trifle
crude, perhaps. Didn't he refuse all offers for his pictures during
his lifetime? Hardly think he could have been overwhelmed with
applications for the one opposite.
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