I am favored with a blessed peace of mind, and a very precious season of good feelin' toward my fellow-creturs." A lusty young fellow happened to make a quick step backward just at that instant, and put his heel, with his weight on top of it, upon the Deacon's toes.
"Aigh! What the d' d' didos are y' abaout with them great huffs o' yourn ?" said the Deacon, with an expression upon his features not exactly that of peace and good-will to men.

The lusty young fellow apologized; but the Deacon's face did not come right, and his theology backed round several points in the direction of total depravity.
Some of the dashing young men in stand-up collars and extensive neckties, encouraged by Mr.Geordie, made quite free with the "Ma,dary," and even induced some of the more stylish girls--not of the mansion-house set, but of the tip-top two-story families--to taste a little.

Most of these young ladies made faces at it, and declared it was "perfectly horrid," with that aspect of veracity peculiar to their age and sex.
About this time a movement was made on the part of some of the mansion-house people to leave the supper-table.

Miss Jane Trecothick had quietly hinted to her mother that she had had enough of it.

Miss Arabella Thornton had whispered to her father that he had better adjourn this court to the next room.