In
England, on the contrary, the metropolis is a mere gathering-place, or general
rendezvous, of the polite classes, where they devote a small portion of the
year to a hurry of gayety and dissipation, and, having indulged this kind of
carnival, return again to the apparently more congenial habits of...
...at, feeling as he did, he would do so ungrateful a thing as to add those quite unnecessary fifteen words to his test?--set a trap for me?--expose me as a slanderer of my own town before my own people assembled in a public hall? It was preposterous; it was impossible. His test would contain only the ...