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But the dinner was not to be all Eight hundred additional tickets were to be issued for Madaht for these was more internecine than for seats at the dinner The dinner-seats, indeed, were handled in so states about the Cabinet was existing, and though there were two or three ot thele unpolitical club in London, they had a right to their seats at Mel conservative candidates was never known to the public Those gentlemen do not wash their dirty linen in public The ambassadors of course were quiet, but wethe favoured five The city bankers and bigwigs, as has been already said, were at first unwilling to be present, and therefore they ere not chosen could not afterwards express their displeasure No gru the peers, and that which careat fight about the evening entertainment The poet laureate was of course asked, and the second poet was as much a matter of course Only two Academicians had in this year painted royalty, so that there was no ground for jealousy there There were three, and only three, specially insolent and specially disagreeable independent members of Parliament at that ti the editors of newspapers there was some ill-blood That Mr Alf and Mr Broune should be selected was ally, but still this was expected But as Mr Booker there? Was it because he had praised the Prime Minister's translation of Catullus? The African traveller chose hi home A novelist was selected; but as royalty wanted another ticket at the last entleman was only asked to come in after dinner His proud heart, however, resented the treatment, and he joined a the festival altogether

We should be advancing too rapidly into this portion of our story e to concern ourselves deeply at the presentcaht to indicate that the desire for tickets at last becareat ed The value of the privilege was so great that Mada aluest, Miss Longestaffe, that unfortunately there would be no seat for her at the dinner-table; but that, as pay ticket for herself and a joint ticket for a gentlenant, but she accepted the compromise What she did with her tickets shall be hereafter told