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 ¬my opinion in favour of public places was beginning to gain ground, I desired Morvina to ¬add for nic, that we had them in the highest perfection in London, to the utter extinction of that itinerant mendicant dissipation, begging nightly at private houses for the smallest mor- sels of entertainment in every nook and corner of the town. ¬I was the friend, I said, of universal hospi- tality. — I wished to see in the spacious apart- ments of the great the most splendid festivals, and that even the most private houses should often resound with music, gaiety, and mirth. — ¦ I objected only to those cruel experiments on animal life in over-crowded parties, which, after all, could be out-done by the air-pumps of every chemist in the very same streets, but who, by the bye, would be disgraced by such practices even upon frogs or mice. ¬Here the discussion ended — ¬I was ¬