Lady Herbert said to me, 'Very extraordinary it is,--four by honors again.' So I looked, and then I perceived it,--a very old trick it is; but she did it beautifully.
What's her name ?" "Some western name; I forget it," said the poor general, ready to die with shame.
"Clever old woman, very!" said the old lord, taking a pinch of snuff; "but revokes too often." Supper was announced at this critical moment, and before I had further thought of my determination to escape, I felt myself hurried along in the crowd towards the staircase.

The party immediately in front of me were Power and Miss Macan, who now appeared reconciled, and certainly testified most openly their mutual feelings of good-will.
"I say, Charley," whispered Power, as I came along, "it is capital fun,--never met anything equal to her; but the poor general will never live through it, and I'm certain of ten day's arrest for this night's proceeding." "Any news of Webber ?" I inquired.
"Oh, yes, I fancy I can tell something of him; for I heard of some one presenting himself, and being refused the _entree_, so that Master Frank has lost his money.

Sit near us, I pray you, at supper.

We must take care of the dear aunt for the niece's sake, eh ?" Not seeing the force of this reasoning, I soon separated myself from them, and secured a corner at a side-table.

Every supper on such an occasion as this is the same scene of solid white muslin, faded flowers, flushed faces, torn gloves, blushes, blanc-mange, cold chicken, jelly, sponge cakes, spooney young gentlemen doing the attentive, and watchful mammas calculating what precise degree of propinquity in the crush is safe or seasonable for their daughters to the mustached and unmarrying lovers beside them.