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He abolishes the usual human distinctions, brings all conventionalisms into solution, and loves and celebrates hardly any human attributes save those elementary ones common to all members of the race.

Society throughout the civilized world is, to a certain extent, cast in the same mould; the same laws of etiquette prevail, and the same conventionalisms restrict in great measure the display of any individual characteristics.

One evening, while waiting the slow movements of an opponent at chess, the following remarks in slightly raised tones were audible above the rest:-"Do you really think me pretty?-Oh flattering man!-Deuce, ace-Treble, double, and rub- That's a good hand-Check-It's your play-You've gammoned me-Ay, ay, sir-Parbleu!-Holloa! steward, whisky-toddy for four-I totally despise conventionalisms-Checkmate-Brandy-punch for six-You've thrown away all your hearts"-and a hundred others, many of them demands for something from the culinary department.

Her friendliness, and utter unreserve, took me aback for a moment; yet there was no touch of forwardness, or boldness, about the child for child, almost, she seemed to be: I guessed her at scarcely over twenty-all was the innocent frankness of some angelic visitant, new to the ways of earth and the conventionalisms or, if you will, the barbarisms-of Society. "Even so," I mused, "will Sylvie look and speak, in another ten years." "You don't care for Ghosts, then," I ventured to suggest, unless they are really terrifying?" "Quite so," the lady assented. "The regular Railway-Ghosts-I mean the Ghosts of ordinary Railway-literature-are very poor affairs.

It neutralises the conventionalisms of society, and makes the whole world kin.

At that time, I was a reckless young fellow, going through the conventionalisms of society without a thought; but the event of the morning had made even me reflect. 'Do you think he will die, captain?' I asked: 'is the wound mortal?' 'For certain!' he replied with a slight smile. 'I have a knack-of course for Jacobins and Bonapartists only-when I thrust en quarte, to draw out the sword by an imperceptible movement of the hand, en tierce, or vice versâ, according to circumstances; and thus the blade turns in the wound-and that kills; for the lung is injured, and mortification is sure to follow.' On returning to my hotel, where L-- also was staying, I met the physician, who had just visited him.


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