inferior to the Paris display, and much more extravagant. So much for
the copy.

And so much for the gentleman who gave the dinner. Dr. L----, desirous
to do his lordship 'the honour of the place,' feasts him with the
best victuals money can procure--and my lord finds the entertainment
extravagant and inferior. Extravagant! it was not extravagant to
HIM;--Inferior! Mr. L---- did his best to satisfy those noble jaws,
and my lord receives the entertainment, and dismisses the giver with
a rebuke. It is like a three-tailed Pasha grumbling about an
unsatisfactory backsheesh.

But how should it be otherwise in a country where Lordolatry is part
of our creed, and where our children are brought up to respect the
'Peerage' as the Englishman's second Bible?



CHAPTER IV--THE COURT CIRCULAR, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SNOBS

Example is the best of precepts; so let us begin with a true and
authentic story, showing how young aristocratic snobs are reared, and
how early their Snobbishness may be made to bloom. A beautiful and
fashionable lady--(pardon, gracious madam, that your story should
be made public; but it is so moral that it ought to be known to the
universal world)--told me that in her early youth she had a little
acquaintance, who is now indeed a beautiful and fashionable lady too.
In mentioning Miss Snobky, daughter of Sir Snobby Snobky, whose
presentation at Court caused such a sensation, need I say more?