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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Lying awake last night," I said at breakfast next morning, "I couldn't help thinking over the different things we have done for those serpents." "What serpents?" "Those contemptible Mopworths. I wonder if they have any feelings of shame? If they have, they must blush when they think of the way they have treated us." "I can't think why they've left us out. Perhaps it's a mistake."
Nevertheless, the Mopworths were to have their annual party on the following Wednesday, and they had not invited us. "Upon my soul," I exclaimed, "I never in my life heard of anything so absolutely paltry." "I can't think why it is," said Eliza. "Oh, we're not good enough for them. We all know who his father was, and we all know what he is a petty provincial shopkeeper!
On my return I said to Eliza that, though the whole subject was distasteful to me, there was one point to which I had given a few moments' consideration. Reluctant though I was to sully my lips with the name of Mopworth, I felt it a duty to myself to say that even if the Mopworths had asked us to their annual party I should have refused point-blank. "Really?" said Eliza. This annoyed me slightly.
She ought to have seen, without being told, that it was impossible for people like us to continue to know people like them. "I am accustomed," I replied, "to say just exactly what I mean. As far as I can remember, I have lately more than once asked you to drop the Mopworths. If I have not actually done it, it has been in my mind to do so.
And so it was, though I had not been intending what the French call a double entendre at the time. I must say that both Eliza and myself felt a good deal of contempt for the Mopworths. We had known them for three years, and that gave us a claim; Peter Mopworth was a connection of Eliza's by marriage, and that also gave us a claim; further, our social position gave us a claim.
And, I say, Eliza, if you meet that Mopworth woman in the street, there's no occasion for you to recognize her." "That would look as if we were terribly cut up because we hadn't been asked to their party." "Possibly. Whereas, I don't even consider it worth talking about." We discussed the Mopworths and their party for another hour and a half, and then went to bed.
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