RECEIVING VISITS.
LXXXI.
In receiving morning visits, lay aside any employment in which you may be occupied; this will enable you to pay those little attentions, and to say those elegant but appropriate nothings, which make your guests immediately at home, and tend to the establishment of your character as one of the mode. When your visiters rise to depart, ring the bell for a servant to open the street door.
LXXXII.
Avoid all appearance of anxiety; yet let nothing escape your attention.
LXXXIII.
When visitors enter, rise immediately, advance toward them, and request them to be seated. If it is an elderly person, insist upon his occupying the arm-chair; if a lady, beg her to be seated on the sofa.