no sir replied coolly i should hardly describe it so sir i should say it it is the word i should employ mr his wooden conceit and craft kept exact pace with the delighted of his victim the visions rising before his of the many ways in which this was to be turned to account never obscured the foremost idea natural to a dull man that he must not make himself too cheap mrs s fashion as a less inexorable deity than the idol usually worshipped under that name did not forbid her mixing for her guest or asking if he found the result to his liking on his returning a gracious answer and taking his place at the settle mr b an to compose himself as a listener at the opposite settle with eyes sorry to deprive you of a pipe he said filling his own but you can t do both together oh i and another thing i forgot to friend name i you in here of an evening and look round yon and notice anything on a shelf that happens to catch your fancy mention it we who had been going to put on his immediately laid them down with the observation you read my thoughts sir do my eyes deceive me or is that object up there a � a pie it can t be a pie yes it s a pie replied mr with a glance of some little discomfiture at the decline and fall have i lost my smell for fruits or is it a apple pie sir asked it s a and ham pie said mr is it indeed sir and it would be hard sir to name the pie that is a better pie than a and hammer said mr nodding his head have some thank you mr i think i will at your invitation i wouldn t at any other party s at the present juncture but at yours air and too especially when a little salt which is the case where there s ham is to the organ is very to the organ mr w g did not say what organ but spoke with a cheerful so the pie was brought down and the worthy mr exercised his patience until in the exercise of his knife and fork had the dish only by the opportunity to inform that although it was not strictly fashionable to keep the contents of a thus exposed to view he mr considered it hospitable for the reason that instead of saying in a comparatively manner to a visitor there are such and such down stairs will you have an up you took the bold practical course of saying cast your eye along the shelves and if you see anything you like there have it down and now mr at length pushed away his plate and put on his spectacles and mr lighted his pipe and looked with beaming eyes into the opening world before him and mrs in a manner on her as one who would be part of the audience if she found she could and would go to sleep if she found she couldn t hem began this mr and lady is the first chapter of the first of the decline and fall os here he looked hard at the book and stopped what s the matter why it comes into my mind do you know sir said w g with an air of frankness having first again looked at the book that you made a this morning which i had meant to set you right in something put it out of my head i think you said empire sir it is ain t it no sir what s the were the difference sir mr was and in danger of mutual friend down when a bright thought flashed upon him the sir there you place me in a mr suffice it to that the difference is best postponed to some other occasion when mrs does not honor us with her company in mrs s presence sir we had better drop it mr thus came out of his disadvantage with quite a air and not only that but by dint of repeating with a manly delicacy in mrs s presence sir we had better drop it turned the disadvantage on who felt that he had committed himself in a manner then mr in a dry way entered on his task going straight across country at everything that came before him taking all the hard words and getting rather shaken by and the at pronounced and supposed by mr to be a virgin and by mrs to i responsible for that necessity of dropping it li by up again and galloping smoothly with getting over the ground well with who under the of was held by mr to have been quite unworthy of his english origin and not to have acted up to his name in his government of the people with the death of this personage mr terminated his first reading long before which several total of mrs s candle behind her black velvet would have been very alarming but for being r accompanied by a potent smell of burnt pens when her feathers took fire which acted as a and woke her mr having read on by and attached as few ideas as possible to the text came out of the encounter fresh but mr who had soon laid down his unfinished pipe and had ever since sat intently staring with his eyes and mind at the of the so severely punished that he could hardly wish his literary friend night and articulate to gasped mr staring at the moon letting out at the gate and it fights in that wild east show seven hundred and five times in one character only i as if that wasn t enough a hundred lions is turned into the same wild beast show all at once 