The Complete Works of Mark Twain [pseud.] the Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Vol. 15 Ffiteen (15)
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My month ended, my employer back from his journey, I should be all right once more, for I should at once divide the two years' salary among my creditors by assignment, and get right down to my work. It was a lovely dinner-party of fourteen. The Duke and Duchess of Shoreditch, and their daughter the Lady Anne-Grace-Eleanor-Celeste-and-so-forth- and-so-forth-de-Bohun, the Earl and Coimtess of Newgate, Viscount Cheapside, Lord and Lady Blatherskite, some imtitled people of both sexes, the minister... and his wife and daughter, and his daugh- ter's visiting friend, an English girl of twenty- two, named Portia Langham, whom I fell in love with in two minutes, and she with me — I could see it without glasses. There was still another guest, an American — ^but I am a little ahead of my story. While the people were still in the drawing-room, whetting up for dinner, and coldly inspecting the late comers, the servant announced: *'Mr. Lloyd Hastings." The moment the usual civilities were over, Hast- ings caught sight of me, and came straight with cordially outstretched hand; then stopped short 121 MARK TWAIN when about to shake, and said, with an embarrassed look: "I beg yoiir pardon, sir, I thought I knew you.** **Why, you do know me, old feUow.'* *'No.
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