Chapter C: S. CALVERLEY, Fly Leaves

During [a] drive, Lord William L----, a man
of fashion, but, like other of the great men of
the day, an issuer of paper money discounted at
high rates by the usurers, was thrown off his horse.
Mr. and Mrs. King immediately quitted the carriage, and
placed the noble lord within. On this circumstance
being mentioned in the clubs, Brummell observed it was
only "a Bill _Jewly_ (duly) taken up and honoured."

GRONOW, _Recollections_.

She made the cleverest people quite ashamed,
And even the good with inward envy groaned,
Finding themselves so very much exceeded
In their own way by all the things that she did.

LORD BYRON, _Don Juan_.

On the elevation of some childless person to the
peerage, [Lady Charlotte Lindsay] remarked
that he was "of the new Order, which seemed
the popular one, not of the Barons, but the Barrens."

LORD HOUGHTON, _Monographs_.

Oft when petty annoyances ruffle the soul,
And the temper defies philosophic control,
The emotion is quelled, and a calm will succeed,
Through the simple device of inhaling the Weed:
Such magical power has the soothing Canaster
To bring balmy content and good humour to Gaster.

LORD NEAVES, _Songs and Verses_.

Morgan John O'Connell had the ready
wit of his country in a remarkable degree. We
were walking by the Wey one day, when an
Oxford graduate, who had a taste for botany, plucked a
flower (_Balsamum impatiens_) from the river, remarking
that it was a very rare plant. "It is an out-of-the-_Wey_
one, at any rate," was the instantaneous reply.

W. H. HARRISON, _University Magazine_.

Oh! 'tis the most tremendous bore
Of all the bores I know,
To have a friend who's lost his heart
A short time ago.

_Bon Gaultier Ballads._

I never on any account allow my business to
interfere with my drinking.