Indeed, what can be more provoking, after a dispute
with your wife, than to find it is you, and not she, who has been in the
wrong?
Sir Barnes Newcome politely caused us to understand that the
entertainment of which we had just partaken was given in honour of the
bride. Clive must needs not be outdone in hospitality; and invited us and
others to a fine feast at the Star and Garter at Richmond, where Mrs.
Pendennis was placed at his right hand. I smile as I think how much
dining has been already commemorated in these veracious pages; but the
story is an everyday record; and does not dining form a certain part of
the pleasure and business of every day? It is at that pleasant hour that
our set has the privilege of meeting the other. The morning man and woman
alike devote to business; or pass mainly in the company of their own
kind. John has his office; Jane her household, her nursery, her milliner,
her daughters and their masters. In the country he has his hunting, his
fishing, his farming, his letters; she her schools, her poor, her garden,
or what not.
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