de Duras's and de Montcalm's splendid hotels were all but exclusively political and diplomatic; whereas at Gérard's there was a mixture of these with the purely mundane and artistic elements, and, above all, there was a portion of Imperialist fame blended with all the rest, that was hard to be found anywhere else.

Looking at this face so mundane, so intellectually mundane, I see why a young man of refined minda bachelor who spends at least a pound a day on his pleasures, and in whose library are found some few volumes of modern poetryseeks his ideal in a woman of thirty.

Her fashionably-cut silk fits her perfectly; the skirt is draped with grace and precision, and the glossy shawl with the long soft fringe is elegant and delightfully mundane.

He contrived to amuse Lesbia by his conversation, which was essentially mundane, depreciating people whom all the rest of the world admired, or pretended to admire, telling her of the secret springs by which the society she saw around her was moved.

They were foolishly permitted to botanize together, and the result was, that Alfred Bourdon, acting upon the principle that geniuswhether sham or reallevels all merely mundane distinctions, had the impudence to aspire to the hand of Miss Armitage.