Of course there was no sitting down; which means that the bashful, retiring, and obedient guests were to stand on their legs; while those who were forward, and impudent, and disobedient, found seats for themselves wherever they could.

Charley was certainly among the latter class, and he did not rest therefore till he had got Katie into an old arm-chair in one corner of the room, in such a position as to enable himself to eat his own supper leaning against the chimney-piece.
'I say, Johnson,' said he, 'do bring me some ham and chicken--it's for a lady--I'm wedged up here and can't get out--and, Johnson, some sherry.' The good-natured young Weights obeyed, and brought the desired provisions.
'And Johnson--upon my word I'm sorry to be so troublesome--but one more plateful if you please--for another lady--a good deal, if you please, for this lady, for she's very hungry; and some more sherry.' Johnson again obeyed--the Weights are always obedient--and Charley of course appropriated the second portion to his own purposes.
'Oh, Charley, that was a fib--now wasn't it?
You shouldn't have said it was for a lady.' 'But then I shouldn't have got it.' 'Oh, but that's no reason; according to that everybody might tell a fib whenever they wanted anything.' 'Well, everybody does--everybody except you, Katie.' 'O no,' said Katie--'no they don't--mamma, and Linda, and Gertrude never do; nor Harry Norman, he never does, nor Alaric.' 'No, Harry Norman never does,' said Charley, with something like vexation in his tone.

He made no exception to Katie's list of truth-tellers, but he was thinking within himself whether Alaric had a juster right to be in the catalogue than himself.

'Harry Norman never does, certainly.

You must not compare me with them, Katie.