“I say, Vee. He is steeped in the conventions. Intelligence was the currency in Athens, and anyone who displayed great knowledge ascended to the top, no matter what his former circumstances. She had lost her nerve, and there was no more freedom in London for her that night. She had to make sure, for the peace of her mind, that this was really the man. In worldly matters Gay was not fortunate. ‘I’ll take wine,’ the lady said briefly, turning back instantly to Hilary. What a pity! For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet instead of four—broken, without resilience. “Enter Sir John, very honest, very much in love with me. Byrom,—a poet of whom his native town, Manchester, may be justly proud; and his features and figure have been preserved by the most illustrious of his companions on the present occasion,—Hogarth,—in the levée in the "Rake's Progress," and in "Southwark Fair. “We don’t let to ladies,” they said.
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