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 about Charlie, that all young meat, and pork, and raw vegetables, and sweet things, and pastry were bad; and, my dear, he dined on veal cutlets and roast pork, salad, and jam tarts, and plum-pudding. I suppose doctors cure themselves when they get home after they have dined out, and I am so partial to him that he should have been welcome to my veal cutlet, though it was deliciously tender, and I also think we might manage that tomata sauce at home, it sets off veal. They talked a great deal too about Berlin, and the palace our Princess is to have; altogether I was very much pleased, though I had a sad fright about my mantilla, when a great gold tag that footman had hanging from his shoulder—I wonder why—caught in it, but there was no harm done."

The dinner gave general satisfaction. Blanche who was seated between Lord Chesterton and Captain Hopkinson, was gratified to see how well they amalgamated; how Lord Chesterton began by formal, though genuine expressions of gratitude for the kindness