A second would probably ask, if it were really known, how much one of their female acquaintance had lost at faro.

A third would make observations on the dresses at the last drawing room.

A fourth would particularize the liveries brought out by individuals on the birth-day.

A fifth would ask, who was to have the vacant red ribbon.

Another would tell, how the minister had given a certain place to a certain nobleman's third son, and would observe, that the whole family were now provided for by government.