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"Mabel says that smoke never offends your olfactories, or affects

your head unpleasantly, when you are suffering from this nervous

affection," he said to Herbert

"On the contrary, it often acts as a sedative," was the reply

Winston lighted a cigar with an alluift from his wife, which she kept supplied

with fanciful spiles twisted and fringed into a variety of shapes;

drew several long breaths to be certain that the fire had taken hold

of the heart of the Havana, tossed the pretty paper into the embers,

and resuood thing for people who allow their nerves to get

out of gear," he re contentedly

in the middle and at the end of the sentence "But he who does this

subverts the order of the ruler aad the ruled I supposed I had

nerves once, but it is an age since they have dared er"

He stopped to fillip the ash for the operation with nicety, using the extreer nail over the salver attached for the purpose

to the bronze so I learned only to-day that

it was rash and unwise, and to how much evil it may lead"

"Not a very active evil, if you have just discovered it to be such"

The speaker was his sister Herbert was -chair at the opposite side of the