18/29 Immediately upon this announcement, he indulged luxurious reflections, as his manner was: 'To have stirred up the old place and given it something to dream of for the next half century, is a satisfaction, Richie. I leave it with its factions reconciled, its tea-tables furnished with inexhaustible supplies of the chief thing necessary, and the persuasion firmly established in my own bosom that it is impossible to revive the past, so we must march with the age. And let me add, all but every one of the bills happily discharged, to please you. |