To please every body was impossible.
I therefore adopted that line of conduct which combined public advantage with private convenience, and which, in my judgment, was unexceptionable in itself.
"These visits are optional.

They are made without invitation.

Between the hours of three and four every Tuesday, I am prepared to receive them.

Gentlemen, often in great numbers, come and go;--chat with each other;--and act as they please.

A porter shows them into the room; and they retire from it when they choose, and without ceremony.