"Raki is bad enough, but it's nectar compared with pulque."

"I was not myself on that night. The wine was in and the wit was out."

"History was being manufactured at the rate of a sensation a week."

"Young men, not bein' old men," she replied, cautiously, "and sinners not bein' saints, it's not nattral as latch keys…"

"It was Saturday morning, and of course all fashionable Melbourne was doing the Block. With regard to its "Block," Col…"

"I don't like Latin," said Miss Frettlby, shaking her pretty head. "I agree with Heine's remark, that if the Romans ha…"

"Young men of the present day are very fond of running down women, and think it a manly thing to sneer at them for the…"

"Diplomacy," said Calton, to one young aspirant for legal honours, "is the oil we cast on the troubled waters of socia…"

"Some writer has described Melbourne as Glasgow, with the sky of Alexandria; and certainly the beautiful climate of Au…"

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."