The things we do!

He will eat his supper as gaily after a great victory as after a signal
defeat; and we know that to win with magnanimity requires much more
constancy than to lose. His sleep will not be disturbed by one event or
the other. He will play skittles all the morning with perfect
contentment, romp with children in the forenoon (he is the friend of half
the children in the place), or he will cheerfully leave the green table
and all the risk and excitement there, to take a hand at sixpenny whist
with General Fogey, or to give the six Miss Fogeys a turn each in the
ballroom. From H.R.H. the Prince Royal of ----, who is the greatest guest
at Baden, down to Brown the bagman, who does not consider himself the
smallest, Lord Kew is hail fellow with everybody, and has a kind word
from and for all.


CHAPTER XXVIII
In which Clive begins to see the World

In the company assembled at Baden, Clive found one or two old
acquaintances; among them his friend of Paris, M. de Florac, not in quite
so brilliant a condition as when Newcome had last met him on the
Boulevard.


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