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ing hotel, came to dinner with us, and we all made 

 very merry, and bucked about our trophies no end. 

 It was Douglas Jerrold, wasn't it, who said that if an 

 earthquake were to engulf England to-morrow, the 

 EngHsh would manage to meet and dine somewhere 

 among the ruins just to celebrate the event ? 

 Kenneth's dinner-party reminded me of it. 



