He followed him about, note-book in hand, bore all his snubbings patiently, and made the best biography ever written.

" At any other time his conceit would have brought upon himself a fine snubbing, but today I was in high feather, and accordingly very pleasant, and resolved to amuse myself by drawing him out.

" Miss Christie Grant said this with a certain severity of manner, but she hardly knew how to combine a snubbing to the lady for her betrayal of interest in all the bachelors round, with her desire to boast of this relative.

Do you know that he had the impudence to advise Reuben to plead 'guilty'?" "He told us he had done so, and got a well-deserved snubbing from Thorndyke for his pains.