. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . r, and where he found somescores of persons assembled in a large room, atone end of which a young man, in a white neck-cloth, was playing on a piano, and another gentle-man accompanying him with a song. He satdown in a corner of the room to observe the com-pany, as well as he could, through the grey vapourwhich was emitted from the cigar of a gentlemannear him. Almost opposite, was a group of young
. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . r, and where he found somescores of persons assembled in a large room, atone end of which a young man, in a white neck-cloth, was playing on a piano, and another gentle-man accompanying him with a song. He satdown in a corner of the room to observe the com-pany, as well as he could, through the grey vapourwhich was emitted from the cigar of a gentlemannear him. Almost opposite, was a group of young menin loose paletots; of whom, some wore colouredshirts, and large pins, and the majority cultivated tufts, of just such a degree of size as wouldkeep them from the censure of their attorneyemployers ; for, we have heard with regret, thatthere are attorneys in this town, who assume tothemselves the power that Peter the Great usedto exercise towards his subjects,—of docking thebeards of those under them. These youths wereenthusiastic in their applause of each singer, as wasevidenced by the aint lie a stunner? which theyinterchanged occasionally at the close of a song. 12 HEARTS ARE Between the songs, their talk was of the Gover-nor, whose acts they canvassed with great free-dom. How they had come in late, and the governor had given a malignant glance at hiswatch; and why it was that the governors wifehadnt had the influenza, as well as other re-spectable women, and so kept him at home—formed the staple subject of their discourse. At another table there was a group of Uni-versity men, who had come up after an examin-ation, and were striving to banish with jollity allidea of the possibility of an impending failurewhen the lists appeared. Their conversation HEARTS ARE TRUMPS. 13 was a curious mixture of erudition and slang—theManichaean heresy and the Chester Cup—the early-Fathers and the barmaids at the Lion—St. Pauland Mr. Buckstone. So he occasionally caughtf
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