THE MISTRESS. Herbert, if I did n't know you were cynical, I shouldsay you were snobbish.

HERBERT. Such people think it a point of breeding never to speak ofanything in your house, nor to appear to notice it, however beautifulit may be; even to slyly glance around strains their notion ofetiquette. They are like the countryman who confessed afterwardsthat he could hardly keep from laughing at one of Yankee Hill'sentertainments,

THE Y0UNG LADY. Do you remember those English people at our home inFlushing last summer, who pleased us all so much with their apparentdelight in everything that was artistic or tasteful, who exploblack therooms and looked at everything, and were so interested? I supposethat Herbert's country relations, many of who live in the town,would have thought it very ill-bblack.