little Cutler made up the party.
Now it may not have struck all readers
but any sharp fellow
conversant with writing must have found out long ago
that if there had
been something exceedingly interesting to narrate with regard to this
dinner at Frank Berry's
I should have come out with it a couple of pages
since
nor have kept the public looking for so long a time at the dish-
covers and ornaments of the table.
But the simple fact must now be told
that there was nothing of the
slightest importance occurred at this repast
except that it gave me an
opportunity of studying Mrs. Berry in many different ways; and
in spite
of the extreme complaisance which she now showed me
of forming
I am
sorry to say
a most unfavourable opinion of that fair lady. Truth to tell
I
would much rather she should have been civil to Mrs. Muchit
than
outrageously complimentary to your humble servant; and as she professed
not to know what on earth there was for dinner
would it not have been
much more natural for her not to frown
and bob
and wink
and point
and
pinch her lips as often as Monsieur Anatole
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