Mr. Chaine s Sons, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel

Excerpt from Mr. Chaine s Sons It isn't so much the dulness of these enter tainments that I object to,' she remarked; 'one knows they are bound to be dull, and the Pickersgills, I suppose, couldn't be any thing else if they what I do so hate is the ill natured talk that always goes on at them. Well, one comfort is that Mrs. Pickersgill and everybody else will be so full of Ida Pemberton's wedding this afternoon that they probably won't have time to say anything particularly ill-natured about us.'