He availed himself largely indeed of the resources of Pratt's Hotel, beginning his day with an early visit to his fellow travellers, who had Mr.Pratt in person, in a large bulging white waistcoat, to remove their dish-covers.

Ralph turned up, as he said, after breakfast, and the little party made out a scheme of entertainment for the day.

As London wears in the month of September a face blank but for its smears of prior service, the young man, who occasionally took an apologetic tone, was obliged to remind his companion, to Miss Stackpole's high derision, that there wasn't a creature in town.
"I suppose you mean the aristocracy are absent," Henrietta answered; "but I don't think you could have a better proof that if they were absent altogether they wouldn't be missed.

It seems to me the place is about as full as it can be.

There's no one here, of course, but three or four millions of people.