Tales Of A Traveller, By Washington Irving

















































































































 -  The little presents of fruits and delicacies, and the
thousand petty messages that would pass from house to house; for - Page 204
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The Little Presents Of Fruits And Delicacies, And The Thousand Petty Messages That Would Pass From House To House; For In A Tranquil Community Like This, Living Entirely At Ease, And Having Little To Do, Little Duties And Little Civilities And Little Amusements, Fill Up The Day.

I have smiled, as I looked from my window on a quiet street near the cathedral, in the middle of a warm summer day, to see a corpulent powdered footman in rich livery, carrying a small tart on a large silver salver.

A dainty titbit, sent, no doubt, by some worthy old dowager, to top off the dinner of her favorite prebend.

Nothing could be more delectable, also, than the breaking up of one of their evening card parties. Such shaking of hands such mobbing up in cloaks and tippets! There were two or three old sedan chairs that did the duty of the whole place; though the greater part made their exit in clogs and pattens, with a footman or waiting-maid carrying a lanthorn in advance; and at a certain hour of the night the clank of pattens and the gleam of these jack lanthorns, here and there, about the quiet little town, gave notice that the cathedral card party had dissolved, and the luminaries were severally seeking their homes. To such a community, therefore, or at least to the female part of it, the accession of a gay, dashing young beau was a matter of some importance. The old ladies eyed me with complacency through their spectacles, and the young ladies pronounced me divine.

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