The New World may have its disappointments in store for us, but it cannot possibly show us any spectacle so abject as the spectacle which we witnessed last night at my aunt's ball.
"Lady Janet marked her sense of the proceeding adopted by her guests by leaving them to themselves.

Her guests remained and supped heartily notwithstanding.

They all knew by experience that there were no stale dishes and no cheap wines at Mablethorpe House.

They drank to the end of the bottle, and they ate to the last truffle in the dish.
"Mercy and I had an interview with my aunt upstairs before we left.

I felt it necessary to state plainly my resolution to leave England.