When to this was added the state dinners, to which she was always regularly invited, and held as a distinguished guest, and it was remembered how seldom this occurred in other houses since her widowhood, the vacillating mind took a new direction, and it was voted an impracticable thing to part with the baroness and her atmosphere of agrémens.

Many like the Loafer, who had come off without losing all that was concealed about their persons, transferred the remains to their clothes bags so soon as opportunity offered, and sadly regretted they had not at first secreted the whole of their last night's gleanings in this safe place, made sacred by the high word of honour of England's commissioned officers.

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This name hath been most common in England since King William the Conquerour, insomuch that upon a festival day in the Court of King Henry the Second, when Sir William Saint-John, and Sir William Fitz-Hamon, especial Officers, had commanded that none but of the name of William should dine in the great Chamber with them, they were accompanied with a hundred and twenty Williams.