The things we do!

I am like Caesar,
and of a noble mind: if I cannot be first in Piccadilly, let me try
Hatton Garden, and see whether I cannot lead the ton there. If I cannot
take the lead at White's or the Travellers', let me be president of the
Jolly Bandboys at the Bag of Nails, and blackball everybody who does not
pay me honour. If my darling Bessy cannot go out of a drawing-room until
a baronet's niece (ha! ha! a baronet's niece, forsooth!) has walked
before her, let us frequent company where we shall be the first; and how
can we be the first unless we select our inferiors for our associates?
This kind of pleasure is to be had by almost everybody, and at scarce any
cost. With a shilling's-worth of tea and muffins you can get as much
adulation and respect as many people cannot purchase with a thousand
pounds' worth of plate and profusion, hired footmen, turning their houses
topsy-turvy, and suppers from Gunter's. Adulation!--why, the people who
come to you give as good parties as you do.


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