11, on the Parade.
Their welcome was most hearty, though the company were already at table.

Place was speedily made for them; and Rufus hardly waited to take his before he became the life and spirit of the party.

He continued to be that through the whole entertainment, delighting everybody's eye and ear.

Winthrop laughed at his brother and with him, but himself played a very quiet part; putting in now and then a word that told, but doing it rarely and carelessly; the flow and freshness of the conversation calling for no particular help from him.
Mr.Herder was there; also Mr.Satterthwaite, who sat next to Winthrop and addressed several confidential and very unimportant remarks to him, and seemed to look upon his brother as a sort of meteoric phenomenon.

President Darcy, of Mr.Herder's College, was the only other guest.