human
He might have joined his father's club; but the older men principally played billiards and talked their business affairs between. However, he did not care for billiards, nor had their affairs any affinity with his. A younger set--noisy and assertive out of proportion to its numbers--gave him no consolation, still less anything like edification. They were _au premier plan_; they possessed no background; they were without atmosphere--without envelopment, as Johnny McComas might have amended it (though no such lack would have been noted or resented by Johnny himself). _Bref_, he knew what they all were without going to see. And as for