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Updated: May 29, 2025
She was fat and easy-tempered, and though ever anxious to conciliate him whom she respected and feared as "Mr. Eevans," her powers of dissimulation often failed at a pinch of this kind. Mr. Evans looked at his table-companion with a contempt to which she had long been resigned.
Even the revised version of my adventures, which I had by this time learned to tell glibly enough to conceal the fact that I was omitting the major part, was sufficiently beyond the rut of things to beguile a half-hour in the eventless walls of a Manhattan club. But my table-companion eyed me with his customary and disquieting sharpness, and finally fell into his old habit of diagnosis.
Dick Sheridan, though not a well-bred person, was as amusing and ingenious a table-companion as ever I met; and though during Mr. Edmund Burke's interminable speeches in the English House I used always to go to sleep, I yet have heard from well-informed parties that Mr. Burke was a person of considerable abilities, and even reputed to be eloquent in his more favourable moments.
It was the first time she had ever come into contact for more than a passing moment, with decent surroundings and orderly living, and her surprises were endless. "Say, do these guys make you put on airs like this all the time?" she asked incredulously of her table-companion. "Like what?" "Like eatin' with a fork, an' washin' every day, an' doin' yer hair over whether it needs it or not?"
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