The things we do!

The clerical bachelor was not to be outdone by the gentlemen of the bar;
and the entertainment at the Temple was followed by one at Honeyman's
lodgings, which, I must own, greatly exceeded ours in splendour, for
Honeyman had his luncheon from Gunter's; and if he had been Miss Rosey's
mother, giving a breakfast to the dear girl on her marriage, the affair
could not have been more elegant and handsome. We had but two bouquets at
our entertainment; at Honeyman's there were four upon the
breakfast-table, besides a great pineapple, which must have cost the
rogue three or four guineas, and which Percy Sibwright delicately cut up.
Rosey thought the pineapple delicious. "The dear thing does not remember
the pineapples in the West Indies!" cries Mrs. Mackenzie; and she gave us
many exciting narratives of entertainments at which she had been present
at various colonial governors' tables. After luncheon, our host hoped we
should have a little music. Dancing, of course, could not be allowed.


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