9/18 I was interrupting you.... 'Pon my honour, the matter is vastly diverting." "Nay, sir, after the publication of this diverting epistle, meseems your honour will ceased to be a marketable commodity." "Undoubtedly, sir," rejoined Sir Percy, apparently quite unruffled, "pardon a slip of the tongue... we are so much the creatures of habit.... |