to the temple that night that he resolved to a look at society which he had not seen for a considerable period chapter the last the of society therefore to answer a dinner card from mr and mrs the honor and to signify that mr will be happy to have the other honor the have been as usual dealing dinner cards to society and whoever desires to take a hand had best be quick about it for it is written in the books of the that shall make a next week yes having found out the clue to that great mystery how people can contrive to live beyond their means and having over his as to the universe by the pure of pocket breeches it shall come to pass next week that will accept the hundreds that the legal gentleman in s confidence will again accept the pocket breeches thousands and that the will retire to there to live on mis s diamonds in which mr as a good husband has from time to time invested considerable sums and to relate to and others how that before retired from parliament the house of was composed of himself and the six hundred and fifty seven dearest and oldest friends he had in the world it shall likewise come to pass at as nearly as possible the same period that society will discover that it always did despise and distrust and that when it went to to dinner it always had � though very secretly at the time it would seem and in a perfectly private and confidential manner the next weeks books of the however being not yet opened there is the usual rush to the of the people who our mutual friend go to their house to dine with one another and not with them tl ere is lady there are the great and mrs there is there are boots and there is the who is providence to five hundred thousand men there is the travelling three thousand miles per week there is the brilliant genius who turned the shares into that remarkably exact sum of three hundred and seventy five thousand pounds no shillings and to whom add coming in among them with a of his old languid air founded on and belonging to the days when he told the story of the man from somewhere that fresh fairy all but screams at sight of her false she summons tne to her with her fan but the not to come talks britain with always talks britain and talks as if he were a sort of private employed in the british interests against the rest of the world we what russia means sir says we know what france wants we see what america is up to but we know what england is that s enough for us however when dinner is served and drops into his old place over against lady she can be off no longer long banished robinson says the exchanging m how did you leave the island thank you says it made no complaint of being in pain anywhere say how did you leave the savages v asks lady they were becoming civilized when i left says at least they were eating one another which looked like it returns the dear young creature you know what i mean and you trifle with my impatience tell me something immediately about the married pair you were at the wedding was i by the by at great leisure to consider so i was how was the bride dressed in costume looks gloomy and to answer i hope she herself herself herself and herself or whatever the term may be to the ceremony proceeds the playful however she got to it she it says lady with a little scream the general attention it take care of me if i faint he means to tell us that a horrid female is graceful pardon me i mean to tell you nothing lady replies and keeps his word by eating his dinner with a show of the utmost indifference you shall not escape me in this way you man lady you shall not the question to screen your friend who has made this exhibition of himself the knowledge shall be brought home to you that such a ridiculous is condemned by the voice of society my dear mrs i o e mutual friend do let us resolve ourselves into a committee of the whole house on the subject mrs always charmed by this rattling cries a h s� do let us resolve ourselves into a committee of the whole so delicious says as many as are of that opinion say aye � contrary the have it but nobody takes the slightest notice of his joke now i am of cries lady what spirits she has mrs to whom likewise nobody and this the one is a committee of the whole house to what you may call it � i the voice of society the question before the committee is whether a young man of very fair family good appearance and some talent makes a fool or a wise man of himself in marrying a female turned factory girl hardly so i think the stubborn strikes in i the question to be whether such a man as you describe lady does right or wrong in marrying a brave woman i say nothing of her beauty who has saved his life with a wonderful energy and address whom he knows to be virtuous and possessed of remarkable qualities whom he has long admired and who is deeply to him but excuse me says with his temper and his about equally was this young woman ever a female never but she sometimes rowed in a boat with her father i believe general sensation against the young woman shakes his head boots shakes head shakes his head and now mr was she ever with his indignation rising high 