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Updated: May 26, 2025
But the President's levees were about opening for the season; and two or three of those most insufferable of all coxcombs, the attachés of foreign embassies, whisking their dandy rattans and sporting finely curled mustachoes; who, to his unsophisticated observation, appeared to be men of far greater importance than their less-pretending diplomatic masters, and who not unfrequently shared oysters with him during the day at Laturno's, and canvass-backs and champagne at O'Neal's by night, persuaded him to remain a few weeks longer, not much to the advantage of his exchequer, as may well be supposed.
The result was, that Wheelwright whiled away the whole winter in Washington; and it was a marvel, that what between the mid-day dissipation at Laturno's that unhallowed den in the base of the capitol, which has proved the grave of so many reputations, and the suppers at Brown's and O'Neal's, he did not quite use himself up.
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