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Updated: May 11, 2025

He told me that I played a fairish game of chess. I said it was very good of him to say so. Then he said, "They tell me you hunt, too." I said, "Now and then." He asked, "Is there anything else you can do?" "No," I said, not much liking the tone of the conversation-the old man generally succeeded in putting people's backs up.

E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley - Trent's Last Case

In truth, I had no power to attend to him; for all my thoughts were occupied in re-tracing the transactions of the two former balls, at which I had been present. The party-the conversation-the company-O how great the contrast!

Fanny Burney - Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World