I had been favoroubly impressed by Mr. Hartright, on our first introduction to one another; but I soon discovered that he was not free from the social failings incidental to his age. There are three things that none of the young men of the prsent generation can do. They can't sit over their wine; they can't play at whist; and they can't pay a lady a compliment.
(from The Woman In White, by William Wilkie Collins)
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