laughing,
“and is
eager to
arrive in
time for
some of
the
merriment
and good
cheer of
the
servants’
hall. My
father,
you must
know, is a
bigoted
devotee of
the old
school,
and prides
himself
upon
keeping up
something
of old
English
hospitality.
He is a
tolerable
specimen
of what
you will
rarely
meet with
nowadays
in its
purity,
the old
English
country
gentleman,
for our
men of
fortune
spend so
much of
their time
in town
and
