"Well, what is your text to-night?" asked my host as he joined the
group which had met as usual in the smoking-room.
"Oh," I replied, "I have nothing left to preach about."
"And I," said the Marquis de G., who was looking through the evening
paper, "don't mean to let you off so easily. Here is a piece of news,
which is very interesting in connection with our nightly symposia."
"Read it! Read it!" exclaimed a chorus of voices.