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Some of their haunts, I h in their appearance and circumstances, except perhaps in

the quality of the wine Everything in theulated by an ancient

and precise econolance, that all is

calculated on the principle of the house giving as much for thethose little etiquettes which

persons of gentleard as essentials At half price the

junior anised or natural clubs retire to the

theatres, while the elder brethren o home This seems a very comfortless way of life, but I have no

doubt it is the preferred result of a long experience of the world, and

that the parties, upon the whole, find it superior, according to their

early foraiety, to the sedate but not ular course of a do on the town, consists in

accidentally falling in with persons whoht be otherwise difficult

to meet in private life I have several tientleman, evidently a man of some consequence,

for he cae It happened that ere the only guests, and he proposed that we should therefore dine

together In the course of conversation it came out, that he had been

familiarly acquainted with Garrick, and had frequented the Literary Club

in the days of Johnson and Golds coly lively, and

his ether afforded a very favourable specientlee caain

Such agreeable incidents, however, are not common, as the frequenters of