George Minafer is a spoilt and egotistical cad, and as we pursue his unpleasant personality from infancy onward our impatience with the adoring relatives who allow the impossible little bounder to turn their lives to tragedy becomes more and more pronounced.

"Collins," said Vernon, coldly, "you have the poorest conception of good taste of any man I know, and I know some awful bounders.

He's a confounded little bounder, just the same.

You've been enough of a damned bounder without trying that sort of thing.

But they boast of being on nodding terms with that arch-bounder Lord Saltash, and so everything is forgiven them.

But then I've had something better to think about than that ineffable bounder.

The fellow is an infernal bounder through and through.

"As for that damned, insolent bounder, I will never have him in the house again.

In rotund, elastic bounders, Plainly the great joy of men is, Witness cricket, billiards, rounders, And lawn-tennis.

"Why, you've only known me such a short time, and I'm not such a conceited bounder to think that you've fallen in love with me already.