38 " HE JESTS AT SCABS THAT NEVER FELT," ETC. 



supper : it came ; I informed her of it : " she was 

 engaged the next quadrille : " it was danced, and her 

 partner handed her down to supper: dancing was 

 resumed ; three, four o'clock came : then my fair 

 friend, enveloped in cashmeres without number, came 

 forth: the vestibule, staircase, and hall were warm 

 as art could make them ; but in passing from the 

 door to the carriage, she remarked that this exposure 

 to the cold was dreadful. It never occurred to her 

 that her horses and servants had been shivering at 

 that door for three hours. Now I am quite ready 

 to admit that a delicate female and horses and ser- 

 vants are quite different things ; that use accustoms 

 the one to what would be death to the other ; still, 

 they all have feelings ; and apportion the degree 

 of hardship to the powers of endurance of each, and 

 each will have the same share of suffering. Leave 

 the horses and servants exposed to a freezing snow- 

 storm, and the lady to a cold room without fire, they 

 would probably suffer equally ; and in retributive 

 justice such punishment ought to be inflicted on her 

 to teach her what she thus unthinkingly inflicts on 

 others. But she has probably never been exposed to 

 real suffering of any sort, consequently cannot feel 

 for what she never felt : she is in the position of the 

 Princess, who, hearing that many of her father's 

 subjects were starving, declared that rather than 

 absolutely starve she would eat bread and cheese. 



The Lady to whom I allude has unremittingly 

 accused me of cruelty, because I have as unremit- 

 tingly followed my sporting propensities. That 

 there is more or less of cruelty in all sports, 

 or at least in most of them, no man of sense 

 will dispute ; that is, when sporting is carried on 



