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"We can't all be biologists," Serviss was accustomed to say, "and I suppose soood stock, these Servisses, and knew it and felt it Breeding was indicated in their well-set heads, in their shapely hands, and especially in their handsome noses "We are inclined to be stubby, that's true, but we have the noses of aristocrats--they go back to the Aryans of the Danube," said Mrs Rice to a friend "Morton cannot consider a girl of questionable pedigree, noshe may be We believe in stock--not in family, but strain; a family is an accident, a strain is a formation The Mortons and the Servisses are strains Their union in my brother will yet make itself felt" Her confidence in his poas absolute "He is one of the greatest young men of his day Tiument

The circle of their acquaintance included, first of all--and of course--the scientific group, then in successive widening waves the general literary and educational fraternities, the artistic and musical sets, and finally they kept in touch with the old New York families, their own school-mates and friends and those related All the details and duties of the social side of his life Morton turned over to Kate, and such was her tact, and her skill and charm as hostess, that her rooms of a Tuesday afternoon were filled with a company of men and women as cheerful and as inforroups Serviss uests, finding in this contact with bright reatest pleasures of his life

These various circles moved afar from isms They prided themselves on their balance, their commonsense, their fund of comparative ideas True, some of the women had embraced Christian Science more or less openly, but they did not esteem it necessary to proselyte Political creeds were but jocularly discussed To advocate any special belief was to prick one's self down a bore, although some of those in the strictly university circles did at times become troublesomely learned in conversation However, this was esteeer men like Serviss, who alluded to "the days of the professionalcontempt Conversation with thehtenh-going spiritualist never penetrated To tell the truth, these ht them Some of them went to church, but they did so calmly, patiently, as to a decorous function, and soh the , they had reached a sort of philosophic indifference as to the one-ti in the dictuood deeds and clean thoughts higher than any religion whatsoever