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It is the Covent Garden Piazza, the Paternoster Row, the Vauxhall, the Albion Tavern, the Burlington Arcade, the Crockford's the Finish, the Athenaeum of Paris all in one. Even now, when the first dazzling effect has passed off, I never traverse it without feeling bewildered by its magnificent variety.
They had not met until the previous evening, when Walter, having dined at the Devonshire that comfortable old-world club in St. James's Street which was the famous Crockford's gaming-house in the days of the dandies he had met his old friend in the strangers' smoking-room, the guest of a City stockbroker who was entertaining a party.
But he is very fond of yachts and other men's wives, if he does not like his own; and wherever he goes, he is welcome. That young man with an embroidered silk waistcoat and white gloves, bending to talk to one of the ladies, is a Mr. Vaughan. He is to be seen at Almack's, at Crockford's, and everywhere else. Everybody knows him, and he knows everybody.
"Well, I dare say I could manage it, Mark; I know half a dozen men who play there; they say there is more fun and excitement to be got than at White's or Crockford's, or any of those places.
Passing the open window of another room, he recognized the face of his little brother among a set of young Civil Service fellows, attaches, and cornets. They had no women with them; but they had brought what was perhaps worse dice for hazard and were turning the unconscious Star and Garter unto an impromptu Crockford's over their wine.
Devenham! there you are, back from the wilds, eh? Heard the latest? No, I'll be shot if you have none of you have, and I'm bursting to tell it positively exploding, damme if I'm not. It was last night, at Crockford's you'll understand, and every one was there Skiffy, Apollo, the Poodle, Red Herrings, No-grow, the Galloping Countryman and your obedient humble.
He was continually at Cleveden, or Belvoir, or Welbeck, laughing gaily as he brought down our English partridges, or at Crockford's, smiling as he swept up our English guineas from the board. Holker declares that, excepting Mr.
'Sophy could not bear it, he whispered: 'she had got her head full of the most ridiculous fancies, and it was in vain to speak: so he had promised to give up that, as well as Crockford's. This reminded our hero of his party, and the purpose of his entering the opera.
He shows me those stiff-necked, over-hatted, wasp-waisted gentlemen, drinking Burgundy in the Cafe des Milles Colonnes or riding through the village of Newmarket upon their fat cobs or gambling at Crockford's. Grego's Green Room of the Opera House always delights me. The formal way in which Mdlle. Mercandotti is standing upon one leg for the pleasure of Lord Fife and Mr.
At the hour fixed, neatly shaved, brushed, gloved, booted the revival, in short, of that high-bred Frank Fisherton who was so famous "In his hot youth, when Crockford's was the thing." glowing with only one glass of brandy, "just to steady his nerves," he met the lady at a West-End pastry-cook's.
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