Page:Crotchet Castle - Peacock (1831).djvu/150

 his dinner, but preferred the company of some Aspasia, or Lais.

Two very different persons, sir, give me leave to remark.

Very likely, sir; but both too good to be married in Athens.

Sir, Lais was a Corinthian.

"Od's vengeance, sir, some Aspasia and any other Athenian name of the same sort of person you like—

I do not like the sort of person at all: the sort of person I like, as I have already implied, is a modest woman, who stays at home and looks after her husband's dinner.