The dinner went on and off, like all other dinners; the ladies retired, and the men drank, and talked indecorums.

Mr.Davison left the room first, in order to look out the word "truffle," in the Encyclopaedia; and Lord Vincent and I went next, "lest (as my companion characteristically observed) that d--d Wormwood should, if we stayed a moment longer, 'send us weeping to our beds.'".