George Gissing
Image Attribution: Published by R.F. Fenno & Co, New York, 1896 (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Published by R.F. Fenno & Co, New York, 1896 (Public domain)
Her drawing-rooms on the evening of June 13th were crowded with representatives of Society. Lashmar arrived about ten o’clock, and his hostess had soon introduced him to two or three persons of political note, with each of whom he exchanged phrases of such appalling banality that he had much ado not to laugh in his interlocutor’s face. The swelling current moved him along; he could only watch countenances and listen to dialogues as foolish as those in which he had taken part; a dizzying babblement filled the air, heavy with confusion of perfumes.
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