No doubt she got the right man, but since then I have had no desire for matrimony." The company laughed heartily at this jest, and then attacked the patriarchal banquet with tremendous appetite, nor did they wait to be asked twice to fill their glasses.

Henrietta, naturally, did not touch anything.

Even at ordinary times she ate very little, but now there was nothing at all she fancied.

Mr.Gerzson was in despair.
"My dear lady," said he, "you eat so little that if I were a day labourer I could easily support you on my wages." The company laughed aloud at this.

The idea of a day labourer with such hands and feet as that! Then Gerzson proceeded to relate to them the exploits or misadventures in which his various limbs had more or less come to grief.