10/10 But hang expenses!--care killed a cat--we'll eat the fish, cost what it will .-- And then, Lovel, you must know I pressed you to stay here to-day, the rather because our cheer will be better than usual, yesterday having been a gaude' day--I love the reversion of a feast better than the feast itself. I delight in the analecta, the collectanea, as I may call them, of the preceding day's dinner, which appear on such occasions--And see, there is Jenny going to ring the dinner-bell.". |