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<< Not at all for gentlemen ; the lower orders aliivays 

 get drunk on Saturday." 



"A very sage remark, Ches.," replied Castlereagh, 

 with a light laugh, for, though they were great allies, 

 he never missed a chance of giving a slap to the stupid, 

 haughty don. " On the same principle, of course, 

 you never dine or sup on Saturday nights, for that is 

 the night par excellence on which those poor devils do 

 sup, if they sup at all." 



"By the same rule, gentlemen must never kiss 

 their wives on Saturday nights," said Tom Gas- 

 coigne. 



" Tom, you are, out of all reckoning, behind the 

 day," returned Castlereagh. " Gentlemen of Ches's. 

 order never kiss their wives. Other men's wives are 

 your only Cheshire kissing." 



What remark the snob nobleman would have made 

 to this gentle cut is unfortunately lost to the world in 

 general, and to the readers of Graham in particular ; 

 for at this moment, the door opened, and there ap- 

 peared on the threshold a very good-looking and ex- 

 ceedingly gentlemanly person, of small and rather 

 slender frame, but exquisitely made both for grace and 

 power, with dark, cui'ling hair, dark, oriental eyes, 

 and a slightly Asiatic cast of features, set off by a 

 small penciled moustache and imperial. 



He had a traveling cap on his head, and a dark 

 cloth pelisse, lined throughout with the most superb 

 Babies, over a plain evening dress. 



Scarcely had he shown himself before he was hailed 

 by a perfect tumult of welcome and congratulation, 

 proving the extreme popularity of the new comer. 

 Popular indeed he was, none ever more so, or more 

 deservedly so, as every one will admit, who remem- 

 bers, oris so happy as to know, the Count Matuschevitz. 



A finished and thorough gentleman, as all Russian 

 gentlemen we have ever seen invariably are ; a man 



