‘Why, it is difficult, sir, I confess,’ said the tall footman. ‘It may be done by degrees, Sir. Coffee is the best practice. I carried coffee, Sir, for a long time. It looks very like rappee, sir.’

It is a hard thing to be obliged to lay bare the nakedness of our own father-land, and feel ourselves compelled to confess that a foreign people, whom we had long looked down upon with contempt, making slighting mention occasionally, now of their minute laboriosity, now of their mad extravagance, have stolen a march upon us even in our most beloved paths, and cropped, as Pindar says, the tips of all the virtues from before us.

The model assumes that the number of interacting modes is finite and effects of the mode overlapping coefficient on the strength of the intermode interaction can be taken into account through dependence of the coupling coefficient on the mode characteristics.

Aelin squared her shoulders and slipped into the bejeweled crowd.