So to the boardroom the Bishop went straightway, and announcing himself, made his complaint.

The chairman, professing his regret that such offence should have been given, said he feared the man must have been drunk, but that he should be immediately summoned to give an account of his conduct.

So the porter in great trepidation appeared in a few minutes before the august tribunal of "the Board." "Well, sir," said he in reply to the chairman's indignant questioning, "what could I do?
I was werry busy at the time.

So when the gentleman says as his name was Luscombe, I could do no better than tell him to go to h'ell for his luggage, and he'd have found it there all right!" "Oh! I see," said the chairman, "it is a case of misplaced aspirate! We have spaces on the wall marked with the letters of the alphabet, and you would have found your luggage at the letter L.You will see that the man meant no offence.

I am sorry you should have been so scandalised, but though we succeed, I hope, in making our porters civil to our customers, it would be hopeless, I fear, to attempt to make them say L correctly." _Solvuntur risu tabulae_.
I find chronicled a long talk with Mohl one evening at Madame Recamier's.