The company entered, and with some delay and formality took their places.

We need not wait until the Rev.Mr.Aldie says grace, though that would not detain us long; for the Rev.Mr.Aldie, besides being very hungry, has a great deal of tact, and believes in short prayers; nor will we delay to witness the breaking down of the strongholds of precision and ultra propriety, that almost always solemnizes the commencement of an entertainment; but the old Madeira having been passed around, we will listen to the conversation that is going on from different parts of the table.
"We have outlived, sir," said Mr.Chapman, addressing a northern gentleman present, "we have outlived the first and greatest era of our country.

Its infancy was its greatest era.

The spirit of Washington still breathes among us.

One or two of us here have conversed with him, sat at his table, taken him by the hand.