The things we do!

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During this period, Mr. Clive assumed the toga virilis, and beheld with
inexpressible satisfaction the first growth of those mustachios which
have since given him such a marked appearance.
Being at Gandish's, and so near the dancing academy, what must he do but
take lessons in the terpsichorean art too?--making himself as popular
with the dancing folks as with the drawing folks, and the jolly king of
his company everywhere. He gave entertainments to his fellow-students in
the upper chambers in Fitzroy Square, which were devoted to his use,
inviting his father and Mr. Binnie to those parties now and then. And
songs were sung, and pipes were smoked, and many a pleasant supper eaten.
There was no stint: but no excess. No young man was ever seen to quit
those apartments the worse, as it is called, for liquor. Fred Bayham's
uncle the Bishop could not be more decorous than F. B. as he left the
Colonel's house, for the Colonel made that one of the conditions of his
son's hospitality, that nothing like intoxication should ensue from it.


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