These good people soon began their quadrilles and galopades, and were enlivened by all the noise that twelve fiddlers could make for their lives.
You must not suppose the company was made up of these mummers.

There was Dr.Lardner, and Long, the Greek Professor in the London University, and Sheil, and Strutt, and Romilly, and Owen the philanthropist.

Owen laid bold on Sheil, and gave him a lecture on Co-operation which lasted for half an hour.

At last Sheil made his escape.

Then Owen seized Mrs.
Sheil,--a good Catholic, and a very agreeable woman,--and began to prove to her that there could be no such thing as moral responsibility.