I would, however, suggest that breakfast cups should always be provided for the gentlemen.

And then with pleasant neighbours,--or more especially with a pleasant neighbour,--the affair is not, according to my taste, by any means the worst phase of society.

But I do dislike that handing round, unless it be of a subsidiary thimbleful when the business of the social intercourse has been dinner.
And indeed this handing round has become a vulgar and an intolerable nuisance among us second-class gentry with our eight hundred a year--there or thereabouts;--doubly intolerable as being destructive of our natural comforts, and a wretchedly vulgar aping of men with large incomes.

The Duke of Omnium and Lady Hartletop are undoubtedly wise to have everything handed round.

Friends of mine who occasionally dine at such houses tell me that they get their wine quite as quickly as they can drink it, that their mutton is brought to them without delay, and that the potato bearer follows quick upon the heels of carnifer.