" "Ah, I can't bear to hear you!" said the prince gloomily, getting up from his low chair, and seeming anxious to get away, yet stopping in the doorway.

" There are laws, madam, and since you've challenged me to it, I'll tell you who's to blame for it all: you and you, you and nobody else.

Laws against such young gallants there have always been, and there still are! Yes, if there has been nothing that ought not to have been, old as I am, I'd have called him out to the barrier, the young dandy.