Extravagant! it was not extravagant to HIM;--Inferior! Mr.L---- did his best to satisfy those noble jaws, and my lord receives the entertainment, and dismisses the giver with a rebuke.

It is like a three-tailed Pasha grumbling about an unsatisfactory backsheesh.
But how should it be otherwise in a country where Lordolatry is part of our creed, and where our children are brought up to respect the 'Peerage' as the Englishman's second Bible?
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