The table was laid for fifty persons, and was already nearly full.

Our party had the honour of sitting near "the lady," but to check the proud feelings to which such distinction might give birth, my servant, William, sat very nearly opposite to me.

The company consisted of all the shop-keepers (store-keepers as they are called throughout the United States) of the little town.

The mayor also, who was a friend of Miss Wright's, was of the party; he is a pleasing gentlemanlike man, and seems strangely misplaced in a little town on the Mississippi.

We were told that since the erection of this hotel, it has been the custom for all the male inhabitants of the town to dine and breakfast there.